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Re: read_tiff only looks in current working directory? [message #56436]

Wed, 31 October 2007 15:38

Paul Van Delst[1]
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David Fanning wrote:
> Jeff N. writes:
>
>> A couple of times now i've run into a strange problem that i haven't
>> had time to pay much attention to until now. I'm simply trying to
>> read a tiff file with READ_TIFF, but this code fails:
>>
>> indir = 'g:\'
>> infile = 'test.tif'
>> inpath = indir + infile
>>
>> ;cd,indir
>>
>> indata=read_tiff(infile)
>> help, indata
>>
>> It fails with a file not found error even though I know that the file
>> is in the location i'm specifying. Also, the error message prints out
>> the full path to the file it's looking for, and it is looking for the
>> correct file name, but the directory path it's looking in is always
>> the current working directory. So, if i uncomment the call to the CD
>> command above, the file gets read with no problem. Has anyone else
>> come across this? This isn't the way it's supposed to work is it?
>
> Uh, maybe you want this command:
>
> indata = read_tiff(inpath)
>
> That might work better. :-)

I think I can hear Jeff's "d'oh!" way over here.... :o)

cheers,

paulv

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		Re: read_tiff only looks in current working directory? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 31 October 2007 15:38
		Re: read_tiff only looks in current working directory? By: David Fanning on Wed, 31 October 2007 15:10
		Re: read_tiff only looks in current working directory? By: Jeff N. on Wed, 31 October 2007 15:05
		Re: read_tiff only looks in current working directory? By: Jeff N. on Thu, 01 November 2007 09:03

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