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Re: filename check [message #22081 is a reply to message #22075]

Tue, 24 October 2000 00:00

Martin Schultz
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Registered: August 1997

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Stuart Colley wrote:
>
> Can anyone suggest a way to check that a file exists before attempting to
> read from it, since the error messages obtained from trying to read from a
> non-existing file, don't make it clear that file doesn't exist.
>
> cheers,
> S

No, but the error message you get when you try to open the file with
OPENR will tell you this. You may want to try out my open_file
procedure which adds a couple of additional features such as seemless
integration of the dialog_pickfile routine if you specify a name with
wildcards (or no name at all). And this does error checking...

You can find open_file.pro at
http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/~schultz.martin/idl/html/libmartin_ schultz.html

Cheers,
Martin

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