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Re: mkdir? [message #23752 is a reply to message #23747]

Wed, 14 February 2001 07:19

Jeff Jones
Messages: 2
Registered: February 2001

Junior Member

"Christopher W. O'Dell" wrote:
>
> Is there anyway to create a directory in your OS from within
> IDL?
> I keep running into problems using the SAVE function, when I
> have forgotten to create the directory to which I am
> saving. I just want to add a line of code that checks if
> the directory exists, and if it doesn't it makes the
> directory.
> BTW, I'm running on a Windows platform (your are welcome to
> make fun of me at this point...)
>
> Thanks,
> Chris O'Dell
>
> UW-Madison Physics Dept.

Here is what I do under Unix in IDL 5.1:

dir = '/the/directory/im/looking/for/'

; Create the directory, if necessary.
check = findfile( dir, count=direxists )
if (direxists eq 0) then spawn, 'mkdir '+dir

I am sure something equivalent can be done in Windows.

Jeff.

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		Re: mkdir? By: Christopher W. O'Dell on Wed, 14 February 2001 09:48
		Re: mkdir? By: Jeff Jones on Wed, 14 February 2001 07:19
		Re: mkdir? By: davidf on Wed, 14 February 2001 08:25
		Re: mkdir? By: Wayne Landsman on Tue, 13 February 2001 19:17

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