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Re: filename check [message #22075]

Tue, 24 October 2000 00:00

Craig Markwardt
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Registered: November 1996

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Stuart Colley <src@star.ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> Can anyone suggest a way to check that a file exists before attempting to
> read from it, since the error messages obtained from trying to read from a
> non-existing file, don't make it clear that file doesn't exist.

Use the ERROR keyword to OPENR to detect an error condition quietly.
The value returned in this keyword will be non-zero if the file could
not be opened. Also the !ERROR_STATE system variable will contain
helpful information describing the error:

NAME STRING 'IDL_M_CNTOPNFIL'
MSG STRING 'OPENR: Error opening file: snorg.'
SYS_MSG STRING 'No such file or directory'

According to RSI, the error conditions in !ERROR_STATE.NAME are
guaranteed to remain constant in future versions of IDL. To implement
it in practice, consider this:

get_lun, unit
openr, unit, filename, error=err

if err NE 0 then begin
free_lun, unit
message, 'ERROR: could not open '+filename
endif
; Read file ...

I tend to use GET_LUN explicitly so that the unit is guaranteed to be
valid when it is freed. I've nit-picked about this on the newsgroup
before.

Craig

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