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Re: Problem with "~" in Unix FINDFILE, still? [message #2314 is a reply to message #2311]

Thu, 09 June 1994 03:42

knipp
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Registered: January 1993

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In article 120922@ossenu.astro.nwu.edu, pendleton@ossenu.astro.nwu.edu (Jim Pendleton) writes:
> Could someone verify the following Unix IDL "bug" for me in a more recent
> version of IDL than 3.0.0?
>
> The problem I am seeing is that the FINDFILE function doesn't properly
> interpret a "~" as a symbol for the home directory.
>
...

Unfortunately my version is just slightle "more recent" than yours
(SunOs, IDL 3.1.1), but I can confirm that "bug".

What I do to overcome that is to test every filename in the following
way:

- starting with '~'
> change to getenv('HOME')

- starting with '$XYZ'
> change to getenv('XYZ')

- starting with neither '.' nor '/'
> search along IDL_PATH for appropiate file

I've coded the tests in a routine. If someone's interested I'll
post/-email that routine.

Karlheinz

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		Re: Problem with "~" in Unix FINDFILE, still? By: dnguyen on Thu, 09 June 1994 08:36
		Re: Problem with "~" in Unix FINDFILE, still? By: knipp on Thu, 09 June 1994 03:42
		Re: Problem with "~" in Unix FINDFILE, still? By: robijn on Thu, 09 June 1994 06:54
		Re: Problem with "~" in Unix FINDFILE, still? By: thompson on Thu, 09 June 1994 06:04
		Re: Problem with "~" in Unix FINDFILE, still? By: knipp on Thu, 09 June 1994 03:18

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