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Re: findfile gives 'Array has a corrupted descriptor' error [message #85336 is a reply to message #85335]

Thu, 25 July 2013 18:05

David Fanning
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b_gom@hotmail.com writes:

> I running IDL 8.2.3 on Win7 64bit. I have an older program that uses findfile() to recursively find a set of filenames with a wildcard. I realize findfile is obsolete, but it runs *much* faster than file_search. When the findfile returns more than ~5000 files, however, I get the following error:
>
> found=file_search(uval.path+'*',count=count,/mark_dir)
> % Array has a corrupted descriptor: FOUND.
>
> Any ideas what is causing the error?

A bug in FindFile that occurs at about this number of files.

> Assuming that this is a bug that will not be fixed, does anyone have a fast alternative to file_search?

No, sorry. :-)

Cheers,

David

P.S. Do you know the old joke about computers making very fast, very
accurate mistakes?

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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		findfile gives 'Array has a corrupted descriptor' error By: b_gom on Thu, 25 July 2013 17:44
		Re: findfile gives 'Array has a corrupted descriptor' error By: David Fanning on Thu, 25 July 2013 18:05
		Re: findfile gives 'Array has a corrupted descriptor' error By: Phillip Bitzer on Fri, 26 July 2013 05:54
		Re: findfile gives 'Array has a corrupted descriptor' error By: wlandsman on Fri, 26 July 2013 08:29
		Re: findfile gives 'Array has a corrupted descriptor' error By: David Fanning on Fri, 26 July 2013 08:34
		Re: findfile gives 'Array has a corrupted descriptor' error By: b_gom on Fri, 26 July 2013 10:34
		Re: findfile gives 'Array has a corrupted descriptor' error By: b_gom on Fri, 26 July 2013 12:54
		Re: findfile gives 'Array has a corrupted descriptor' error By: b_gom on Fri, 26 July 2013 16:51
		Re: findfile gives 'Array has a corrupted descriptor' error By: b_gom on Tue, 30 July 2013 10:16

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