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Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable [message #75840 is a reply to message #75839]

Wed, 27 April 2011 13:02

Michael Galloy
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Registered: April 2006

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On 4/27/11 11:57 AM, Barry Lesht wrote:
> 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("$SEADAS/local/stationfile.txt,"
> TEMPLATE=stationtemplate). I just tried running the same code under
> IDL8 and now get the error message
>
> % READ_ASCII: File "$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.

Check the value of the SEADAS environment variable with the GETENV
routine. Everything seems fine for me:

$ export MIKE=Hello
$ idl
IDL Version 8.0.1, Mac OS X (darwin x86_64 m64). (c) 2010, ITT Visual
Information Solutions
Installation number: 209577.
Licensed for use by: Tech-X Corporation

IDL> print, getenv('MIKE')
Hello

Mike
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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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