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Re: Can IDL create a plain text file? [message #51868 is a reply to message #51867]

Thu, 14 December 2006 13:59

Matt[1]
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Registered: December 2006

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I'm sorry david, it's not a trick question. I'm a geographer, not a
programmer, and one with about 2 months of IDL experience under my belt
to boot (and no other programming/scripting exposure at all). I think
I'm learning quickly, considering, and am finishing preparations to
process 4TB of satellite imagery. Nothing super high end, i'm sure, but
challenging nonetheless (at least to me).

A colleague mentioned that I should be able to create a text file in
IDL. Thie file will then be used as a paramater file for an ERDAS
Imagine script, which is called from IDL using SPAWN. Like I said
before, I've seen this done with PERL but given my deadlines I don't
have the time to go exploring PERL while still trying to learn IDL.

Silly question, I'm sure, but a real one nonetheless...

:-( indeed

Matt

On Dec 14, 4:13 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Matt writes:
>> Question - can IDL create a plain text file of a filelist following
>> user specifications? By this I mean that I'd like a text file listing
>> files in a directory, but would like to enclose file names in quotes
>> and add additional text to it. I imagine that this can be done by
>> calling a PERL script but I'm wondering if IDL can do it internally.This has GOT to be a trick question. I just can't
> see it though. :-(
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming:http://www.dfanning.com/
> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		Re: Can IDL create a plain text file? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 14 December 2006 15:11
		Re: Can IDL create a plain text file? By: David Fanning on Thu, 14 December 2006 15:06
		Re: Can IDL create a plain text file? By: David Fanning on Thu, 14 December 2006 14:59
		Re: Can IDL create a plain text file? By: Matt[1] on Thu, 14 December 2006 14:40
		Re: Can IDL create a plain text file? By: Christopher Thom on Thu, 14 December 2006 14:24
		Re: Can IDL create a plain text file? By: greg michael on Thu, 14 December 2006 14:15
		Re: Can IDL create a plain text file? By: Matt[1] on Thu, 14 December 2006 13:59
		Re: Can IDL create a plain text file? By: David Fanning on Thu, 14 December 2006 13:13

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