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Re: IDL, scripts and command line arguments? [message #29991 is a reply to message #29990]

Sun, 31 March 2002 09:22

Ken Mankoff
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Registered: February 2000

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On 27 Mar 2002, Michael A. Miller wrote:
> Does anyone have any suggestions on ways to trick IDL into
> getting access to command line arguments (argv- and argc-like
> functionality)? The only trick I've come up with so far is to
> write a script in <scripting-language-of-choice> that writes an
> idl procedure with the parameters hard coded into it and then
> executes it. It's not very pretty though and I wonder if there
> are any other possibilities...

That is how I managed to do it, but I like to think of it as
'very purty' as opposed to 'not very pretty'.

Here is my script. I name it "idl_argv.pl", and here are some examples
of how to call it (from the unix prompt):

./idl_argv.pl
./idl_argv.pl 's = "a silly string"'
./idl_argv.pl 'for i=0,10 do print, i'
./idl_argv.pl 'foo=42 & help, foo & plot, indgen(foo)'
./idl_argv.pl 'pi=3.14159D & almost_pi = 4 ; spaces and comments!'

Here is the script:
----------------------------------------
#! /usr/bin/perl

$input = $ARGV[0];
@list = split( /&/, $input );
$uniq = $$;

open( IDL_FILE, ">idl.$$.pro" );
for ($i=0; $i<=$#list; $i++)
{ print IDL_FILE "$list[$i]\n"; }
close( IDL_FILE );

system( "idl idl.$$.pro" );
system( "/bin/rm idl.$$.pro" );
exit(0);
-----------------------------------------

Is this even close to what you were trying to do?

-k.
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		Re: IDL, scripts and command line arguments? By: Ken Mankoff on Sun, 31 March 2002 11:59
		Re: IDL, scripts and command line arguments? By: Ken Mankoff on Sun, 31 March 2002 09:22
		Re: IDL, scripts and command line arguments? By: Michael Zingale on Fri, 29 March 2002 10:19
		Re: IDL, scripts and command line arguments? By: T Bowers on Fri, 29 March 2002 07:29
		Re: IDL, scripts and command line arguments? By: David Fanning on Wed, 27 March 2002 18:12
		Re: IDL, scripts and command line arguments? By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 27 March 2002 17:56
		Re: IDL, scripts and command line arguments? By: David Fanning on Wed, 27 March 2002 17:20

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