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Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable [message #75799 is a reply to message #75798]

Tue, 03 May 2011 06:11

Craig Markwardt
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Registered: November 1996

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On May 3, 6:20 am, Reimar Bauer <R.Ba...@fz-juelich.de> wrote:
> Am 27.04.2011 19:57, schrieb Barry Lesht:
>
>> Not sure I'm expressing this correctly in the subject line - this is
>> my problem: I have a code that ran fine under IDL7 that included the
>> line "sta_list = READ_ASCII("$SEADAS/local/stationfile.txt,"
>> TEMPLATE=stationtemplate). I just tried running the same code under
>> IDL8 and now get the error message
>
> I tried with idl7.1
>
> IDL> print,"$HOME"
>
> and it just tells:
> $HOME
>
> I don't remember that it ever worked without using getenv function.

Careful. You tested the PRINT command, and I agree that "it" never
automatically retrieved environment variables.

On the other hand, OPEN has always expanded shell variables, for as
long as I have known. And my experience is that shell variable
expansion by OPEN still works within IDL 8.1.

Craig

>
>> % READ_ASCII: File "$SEADAS/local/stationfile.txt" not found.
>
>> The file is most definitely where it should be. After doing some
>> experimenting, it seems IDL8 isn't getting any value for the $SEADAS
>> variable.
>
>> I hope someone can explain to me why not and how to fix it?
>
>> Thanks.

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		Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable By: R.Bauer on Tue, 03 May 2011 08:26
		Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 03 May 2011 06:11
		Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable By: R.Bauer on Tue, 03 May 2011 03:20
		Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable By: Michael Galloy on Fri, 29 April 2011 20:38
		Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable By: BLesht on Thu, 28 April 2011 20:22
		Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 27 April 2011 14:37
		Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 27 April 2011 14:34
		Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable By: BLesht on Wed, 27 April 2011 14:14
		Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 27 April 2011 13:02

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