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Re: reading shapefiles & IDL objects [message #78776 is a reply to message #78769]

Tue, 20 December 2011 19:56

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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desertdryad writes:

>
> Now, I know for certain that the shapefile exists whose name gets
> passed as 'filename' and I've specified the path at the command line.
> Yet, I get this error:
>
> ENVI> testme = readshape('C:\\etotest\pivot6.shp')
>
> MYSHAPE OBJREF = <NullObject>
> % Stop encountered: READSHAPE 7 C:\Cyndys\Default
> \readshape.pro
>
>
> What on Earth am I doing wrong, here? Please advise.

It looks to me like there is an extra slash in the
filename. Shouldn't the file name be this:

filename = 'C:\etotest\pivot6.shp'

Cheers,

David

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		Re: reading shapefiles & IDL objects By: Russell[1] on Wed, 21 December 2011 08:18
		Re: reading shapefiles & IDL objects By: David Fanning on Wed, 21 December 2011 08:09
		Re: reading shapefiles & IDL objects By: desertdryad on Wed, 21 December 2011 08:06
		Re: reading shapefiles & IDL objects By: David Fanning on Tue, 20 December 2011 19:56
		Re: reading shapefiles & IDL objects By: desertdryad on Wed, 21 December 2011 10:00

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