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Re: findfile not recognized [message #44927 is a reply to message #44807]

Thu, 21 July 2005 06:26

Haje Korth
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Registered: May 1997

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I am completely puzzled.....................

Haje

"Mark Hadfield" <m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz> wrote in message
news:dbmmdd$j7c$1@newsreader.mailgate.org...
> amohraz@gmail.com wrote:
>> The command I typed was:
>>
>> f=findfile('/group2/Ali2/071805/6535j2/*.tif',count=nf)
>>
>> and I also tried:
>>
>> f=findfile('/group2/Ali2/071805/6535j2/6535j20001.tif',count =nf)
>>
>> and I know there are a lot of tif files in this location, including
>> 6535j20001.tif
>>
>> Then, print, nf gives me 0.
>>
>> Is this not the correct command?
>
> Looks OK.
>
> As David suggests, are you *sure* you have the names right? Try copying
> the directory and file names out of IDL into your shell console and back
> again to make sure.
>
> Can you get findfile to work as you expect on *any* directory?
>
> Perhaps findfile fails because there are *too many* files in the
> directory. I vaguely recall references to problems such as this on this
> group. I am too lazy to Google the group to confirm this, but you could
> give it a try.
>
>
> --
> Mark Hadfield "Kei puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tahi tatou"
> m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
> National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

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		Re: findfile not recognized By: Benjamin Hornberger on Thu, 21 July 2005 07:55
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		Re: findfile not recognized By: Haje Korth on Thu, 21 July 2005 06:26
		Re: findfile not recognized By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 20 July 2005 16:23
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