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Re: capital letters in file names? [message #56877 is a reply to message #56789]

Sat, 17 November 2007 10:12

Vince Hradil
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Registered: December 1999

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On Nov 16, 6:11 pm, "jdm...@gmail.com" <jdm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is anyone aware of there being an issue with IDL recognizing .pro
> files in a directory as being associated with IDL if there are capital
> letters in the file name? I got a lot of "Variable is undefined"
> messages when I tried to use functions I had written within other
> programs. This even occurred when I had already compiled those
> functions. On a couple of occasions, if I restarted IDL and compiled
> everything right at the start, it worked, but on some occasions it did
> not. Finally, I removed all capital letters from filenames, and
> everything has run a couple of times without issues. Is it just the
> capital letters (in which case I will just avoid that in the future)
> or is there another issue?
>
> Thanks,
> James

You should tell us what OS you are using.

If you are using a *nix OS and you do, say, .comp test, IDL will look
for test.pro which must contain a procedure or function called
"test" (same capitalization). If the file name is Test.pro and the
procedure in it is "test", then you call "Test", IDL will compile
Test.pro creating a procedure called "test", but it won't be able to
find "Test"

Clear as mud?

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		capital letters in file names? By: jdmcbr@gmail.com on Fri, 16 November 2007 16:11
		Re: capital letters in file names? By: Vince Hradil on Sun, 18 November 2007 19:19
		Re: capital letters in file names? By: jdmcbr@gmail.com on Fri, 23 November 2007 18:01
		Re: capital letters in file names? By: David Fanning on Sun, 18 November 2007 09:39
		Re: capital letters in file names? By: Vince Hradil on Sat, 17 November 2007 10:12

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