| Library/Functions to write configuration file for application [message #74745] |
Mon, 31 January 2011 11:05  |
Robin Wilson
Messages: 40
Registered: August 2010
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Hi,
I've written a fairly complex piece of modelling software in IDL, and
the model requires a number of parameters to run (input and output files
as well as various numerical parameters).
I want to be able to run this model from a batch file, and would like to
have a configuration file in which I specify all of these parameters and
then all I have to do is give the model the name of the configuration file.
What I was wondering is whether there are any libraries/sets of
functions in IDL that would help with reading and writing these
configuration files? I know that a number of programming languages
either have inbuilt functions for writing configuration files or some
add-ons which do that - do any of these exist for IDL?
I could knock up some simple file reading/writing code, but that would
make it rather difficult if I changed the order/number of variables in
the file, as I'd probably have to read some lines as strings and some as
floats, ints etc, and I could see it getting very complicated and
difficult to maintain.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Robin
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Robin Wilson
A PhD student studying complexity in remote sensing
www.rtwilson.com/academic
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| Re: Library/Functions to write configuration file for application [message #74822 is a reply to message #74745] |
Thu, 03 February 2011 05:43  |
R.Bauer
Messages: 1424
Registered: November 1998
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Am 31.01.2011 20:05, schrieb Robin Wilson:
> Hi,
In the ICG library there are some routines which may be interesting
for reading:
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http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg-1/idl_icglib/idl_source/idl _html/dbase/read_ini_dbase.pro.html
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http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg-1/idl_icglib/idl_source/idl _html/dbase/read_ini_file_dbase.pro.html
and writing:
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http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg-1/idl_icglib/idl_source/idl _html/dbase/write_ini_dbase.pro.html
cheers
Reimar
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> I've written a fairly complex piece of modelling software in IDL, and
> the model requires a number of parameters to run (input and output files
> as well as various numerical parameters).
>
> I want to be able to run this model from a batch file, and would like to
> have a configuration file in which I specify all of these parameters and
> then all I have to do is give the model the name of the configuration file.
>
> What I was wondering is whether there are any libraries/sets of
> functions in IDL that would help with reading and writing these
> configuration files? I know that a number of programming languages
> either have inbuilt functions for writing configuration files or some
> add-ons which do that - do any of these exist for IDL?
>
> I could knock up some simple file reading/writing code, but that would
> make it rather difficult if I changed the order/number of variables in
> the file, as I'd probably have to read some lines as strings and some as
> floats, ints etc, and I could see it getting very complicated and
> difficult to maintain.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Robin
>
> ------------------
> Robin Wilson
> A PhD student studying complexity in remote sensing
> www.rtwilson.com/academic
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