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Re: File_Which What!? [message #32996 is a reply to message #32920]

Thu, 21 November 2002 19:21

Mark Hadfield
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"David Fanning" <david@dfanning.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1846c9eb188ae0b1989a3d@news.frii.com...
> File_Which very sensibly does NOT search any
> directory that does not contain either a .pro or
> .sav file. (Why include directories on an IDL
> search path that can't result in anything productive?
> Slows everything down.)

What?!

This would be sensible, *if* FILE_WHICH was to be used only to search for
.pro or .sav files. There is nothing in the documentation that says this is
the case, and I (and David) have used it to search for files with other
extensions. I'm just glad it was David who got tripped up by the hidden
gotcha. (Not that I'm not sympathetic, David, but...)

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Mark Hadfield "Ka puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tatou"
m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

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		File_Which What!? By: David Fanning on Wed, 20 November 2002 20:28
		Re: File_Which What!? By: rigby on Fri, 22 November 2002 11:16
		Re: File_Which What!? By: Jaco van Gorkom on Fri, 22 November 2002 07:54
		Re: File_Which What!? By: David Fanning on Fri, 22 November 2002 07:33
		Re: File_Which What!? By: Jaco van Gorkom on Fri, 22 November 2002 06:41
		Re: File_Which What!? By: JD Smith on Mon, 25 November 2002 14:00
		Re: File_Which What!? By: David Fanning on Thu, 21 November 2002 20:00
		Re: File_Which What!? By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 21 November 2002 19:21
		Re: File_Which What!? By: David Fanning on Thu, 21 November 2002 09:46
		Re: File_Which What!? By: R.G. Stockwell on Thu, 21 November 2002 09:39
		Re: File_Which What!? By: David Fanning on Thu, 21 November 2002 06:04
		Re: File_Which What!? By: Nigel Wade on Thu, 21 November 2002 03:56
		Re: File_Which What!? By: R.Bauer on Thu, 21 November 2002 00:27
		Re: File_Which What!? By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 November 2002 14:40

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