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Re: Config files [message #47415 is a reply to message #47414]

Thu, 09 February 2006 04:15

Ben Panter
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Registered: July 2003

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m_schellens@hotmail.com wrote:
> Probably you are better off using
> SAVE and RESTORE.
> It is not in an ascii file then,
> but I could only think of the need if you must
> change the values from outside IDL.

I would use save and restore, but start out with a batch file which can
do the save and restore for you. Something like this:

set_config.pro:

;change these parts:
input = myinputdata.dat
output = myoutputwillgohere.dat
aconstant = 1.0
anarray = [1,2,3]

;leave this alone:
save, input, output, aconstant, anarray, filename='settings.sav'

When you start a run, call @set_config and then later on in the code do
a restore, 'settings.sav'. I do something similar, but save the settings
in a struct rather than loose parameters. That way it's easier to pass
around to any routines that need it later on, and I'm less likely to use
the parameter names for something else by mistake.

Hope that's helpful,

Ben

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		Re: Config files By: mmiller3 on Thu, 09 February 2006 11:05
		Re: Config files By: news.qwest.net on Thu, 09 February 2006 08:53
		Re: Config files By: savoie on Thu, 09 February 2006 07:31
		Re: Config files By: Edd Edmondson on Thu, 09 February 2006 04:18
		Re: Config files By: Ben Panter on Thu, 09 February 2006 04:15
		Re: Config files By: marc schellens[1] on Thu, 09 February 2006 03:08
		Re: Config files By: Robert Barnett on Thu, 09 February 2006 20:43

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