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Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable [message #75800 is a reply to message #75799]

Tue, 03 May 2011 03:20

R.Bauer
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Registered: November 1998

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Am 27.04.2011 19:57, schrieb Barry Lesht:
> Not sure I'm expressing this correctly in the subject line - this is
> my problem: I have a code that ran fine under IDL7 that included the
> line "sta_list = READ_ASCII("$SEADAS/local/stationfile.txt,"
> TEMPLATE=stationtemplate). I just tried running the same code under
> IDL8 and now get the error message

I tried with idl7.1

IDL> print,"$HOME"

and it just tells:
$HOME

I don't remember that it ever worked without using getenv function.

Reimar

>
> % READ_ASCII: File "$SEADAS/local/stationfile.txt" not found.
>
> The file is most definitely where it should be. After doing some
> experimenting, it seems IDL8 isn't getting any value for the $SEADAS
> variable.
>
> I hope someone can explain to me why not and how to fix it?
>
> Thanks.

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		Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable By: R.Bauer on Tue, 03 May 2011 08:26
		Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 03 May 2011 06:11
		Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable By: R.Bauer on Tue, 03 May 2011 03:20
		Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable By: Michael Galloy on Fri, 29 April 2011 20:38
		Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable By: BLesht on Thu, 28 April 2011 20:22
		Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 27 April 2011 14:37
		Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 27 April 2011 14:34
		Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable By: BLesht on Wed, 27 April 2011 14:14
		Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 27 April 2011 13:02

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