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Re: SETENV [message #49836 is a reply to message #9826]

Wed, 16 August 2006 13:42

Dominic Metzger
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Registered: August 2006

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Hah, of course... somehow, I didnt think of that.

Awesome, thanks to both of you!

dometz

JD Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:44:21 -0700, Dominic Metzger wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I looked at the specs for the SETENV command in idl and it says "adds
>> or changes an environment string in the process environment."
>> Unfortunately, they only have examples for changing an environment
>> variable but not how to add to an existing env. variable. I tried
>> pretty much everything that seems to work in Unix but I didnt get it to
>> work it in IDL.
>>
>> so, here is what I am trying to do:
>> in Unix:
>> $ setenv FOO "bar"
>> $ echo $FOO
>> bar
>> $ setenv FOO "foo:$FOO"
>> $ echo $FOO
>> foo:bar
>>
>> So, how can you add to an existing env. variable in IDL with the SETENV
>> command?
>
> IDL> setenv,'FOO=bar'
> IDL> setenv,'FOO=foo:'+getenv('FOO')
> IDL> print,getenv('FOO')
> foo:bar
>
> JD

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		setenv,'x.x.x.x:0.1' By: Russell Tarver on Mon, 18 August 1997 00:00
		Re: SETENV By: Dominic Metzger on Wed, 16 August 2006 13:42
		Re: SETENV By: JD Smith on Wed, 16 August 2006 11:02
		Re: SETENV By: Foldy Lajos on Wed, 16 August 2006 10:59

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