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Re: Rename files using IDL - is it possible? [message #72096 is a reply to message #72010]

Tue, 10 August 2010 14:46

Heinz Stege
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Registered: January 2003

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On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:58:21 -0700 (PDT), LNpellen wrote:

> So the message is:
> Don't use IDL for deleting files that have special characters in the
> name.
> Wait for the next release after 8.0 and hope for a better solution?

I think, this question has to be answered by the ITTVIS folks.

In the case, you are sure that a file with the name filename is
existing, you could do the following check:

if n_elements(file_search(filename)) ge 2 then $
message,'Non-unique file specification...'

So you can stop program execution by issuing an error message, instead
of deleting or renaming wrong files.

Another way could be to check a whole directory for critical file
parallelisms:

a=file_search('*')
if n_elements(uniq(a,sort(a))) ne n_elements(a) then $
message,'Ambiguous file access...'

HTH, Heinz

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		Rename files using IDL - is it possible? By: LNpellen on Thu, 05 August 2010 00:18
		Re: Rename files using IDL - is it possible? By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Thu, 12 August 2010 14:12
		Re: Rename files using IDL - is it possible? By: Heinz Stege on Fri, 13 August 2010 15:15
		Re: Rename files using IDL - is it possible? By: Heinz Stege on Tue, 10 August 2010 14:46
		Re: Rename files using IDL - is it possible? By: LNpellen on Tue, 10 August 2010 04:58
		Re: Rename files using IDL - is it possible? By: Heinz Stege on Fri, 06 August 2010 15:48
		Re: Rename files using IDL - is it possible? By: David Fanning on Fri, 06 August 2010 14:29
		Re: Rename files using IDL - is it possible? By: Heinz Stege on Fri, 06 August 2010 13:16
		Re: Rename files using IDL - is it possible? By: penteado on Fri, 06 August 2010 12:48
		Re: Rename files using IDL - is it possible? By: Heinz Stege on Fri, 06 August 2010 12:06
		Re: Rename files using IDL - is it possible? By: Heinz Stege on Fri, 06 August 2010 12:02
		Re: Rename files using IDL - is it possible? By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Fri, 06 August 2010 09:20
		Re: Rename files using IDL - is it possible? By: LNpellen on Thu, 05 August 2010 23:40
		Re: Rename files using IDL - is it possible? By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 05 August 2010 10:46
		Re: Rename files using IDL - is it possible? By: Heinz Stege on Thu, 05 August 2010 08:09
		Re: Rename files using IDL - is it possible? By: jeanh on Thu, 05 August 2010 08:09
		Re: Rename files using IDL - is it possible? By: LNpellen on Thu, 05 August 2010 05:17
		Re: Rename files using IDL - is it possible? By: Foldy Lajos on Thu, 05 August 2010 04:59
		Re: Rename files using IDL - is it possible? By: LNpellen on Thu, 05 August 2010 03:51
		Re: Rename files using IDL - is it possible? By: Wout De Nolf on Thu, 05 August 2010 01:23

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