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Re: eval [message #50541 is a reply to message #50392]

Tue, 03 October 2006 18:13

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Dometz writes:

> Is there something like the Unix eval command:
> "The eval utility will construct a command by concatenating arguments
> together, separating each with a space character. The constructed
> command will be read and executed by the shell."
> in IDL? So that I basically can create a command dynamically by
> creating a string that will then be "evaled"?
>
> Something like:
> IDL> foo="print, bar"
> IDL> eval(foo)
> bar

See EXECUTE.

Cheers,

David
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		eval By: Dominic Metzger on Tue, 03 October 2006 17:53
		Re: eval By: Dominic Metzger on Wed, 04 October 2006 22:36
		Re: eval By: wlandsman@jhu.edu on Wed, 04 October 2006 19:40
		Re: eval By: David Fanning on Wed, 04 October 2006 16:13
		Re: eval By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 04 October 2006 15:56
		Re: eval By: David Fanning on Wed, 04 October 2006 14:21
		Re: eval By: JD Smith on Mon, 09 October 2006 10:51
		Re: eval By: Dominic Metzger on Wed, 04 October 2006 12:22
		Re: eval By: Braedley on Wed, 04 October 2006 12:12
		Re: eval By: Maarten[1] on Wed, 04 October 2006 00:53
		Re: eval By: Dominic Metzger on Tue, 03 October 2006 21:29
		Re: eval By: David Fanning on Tue, 03 October 2006 18:51
		Re: eval By: Dominic Metzger on Tue, 03 October 2006 18:25
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