| Re: Library/Functions to write configuration file for application [message #74739 is a reply to message #74737] |
Mon, 31 January 2011 13:09   |
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On Jan 31, 2:52 pm, Paolo <pgri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 31, 2:05 pm, Robin Wilson <ro...@rtwilson.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I've written a fairly complex piece of modelling software in IDL, and
>> the model requires a number of parameters to run (input and output files
>> as well as various numerical parameters).
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>> I want to be able to run this model from a batch file, and would like to
>> have a configuration file in which I specify all of these parameters and
>> then all I have to do is give the model the name of the configuration file.
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>> What I was wondering is whether there are any libraries/sets of
>> functions in IDL that would help with reading and writing these
>> configuration files? I know that a number of programming languages
>> either have inbuilt functions for writing configuration files or some
>> add-ons which do that - do any of these exist for IDL?
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>> I could knock up some simple file reading/writing code, but that would
>> make it rather difficult if I changed the order/number of variables in
>> the file, as I'd probably have to read some lines as strings and some as
>> floats, ints etc, and I could see it getting very complicated and
>> difficult to maintain.
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> Well, if the values can only be int, floats or strings, nothing
> like a good old-fashioned text file in format
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> parname = parvalue
> anotherparname = anothervalue
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> which is quite easy to parse.
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> Ciao,
> Paolo
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>> Any ideas?
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>> Cheers,
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>> Robin
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>> Robin Wilson
>> A PhD student studying complexity in remote sensingwww.rtwilson.com/academic
Or, something along the lines of a FITS header, which has a lot of
stuff written for parsing already. Check out the NASA astronomy IDL
library for examples.
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