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Re: capital letters in file names? [message #56858 is a reply to message #56789]

Sun, 18 November 2007 19:19

Vince Hradil
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Registered: December 1999

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Thank you for clearing that up, David. It was late, I was tired. The
easiest seems to me to just use lower case filenames for everything -
and you can (of course) use any (mix of) case for calling the function/
pro.

David Fanning wrote:
> The capitalization of the procedure or function is
> entirely irrelevant. IDL is case insensitive. The
> name of the file should be spelled with lowercase
> letters if you expect IDL to find it automatically
> (as you should). If you always compile your procedures
> and functions before you use them, then (really!) you
> should be using another language than IDL, as there is
> ABSOLUTELY no reason to do this.
>
> You should even name your Windows files with lowercase
> letters, IMHO, since you never know when you might find
> yourself loaning them to someone with a machine different
> from yours. This can cause an enormous amount of heartache
> before you figure out what the problem is.
>
> http://www.dfanning.com/tips/namefiles.html

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		capital letters in file names? By: jdmcbr@gmail.com on Fri, 16 November 2007 16:11
		Re: capital letters in file names? By: Vince Hradil on Sun, 18 November 2007 19:19
		Re: capital letters in file names? By: jdmcbr@gmail.com on Fri, 23 November 2007 18:01
		Re: capital letters in file names? By: David Fanning on Sun, 18 November 2007 09:39
		Re: capital letters in file names? By: Vince Hradil on Sat, 17 November 2007 10:12

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