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Re: file_search: need work around for filenames with square brackets [ ] [message #66806]

Sat, 06 June 2009 07:03

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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rklein writes:

> the routines for reading FITS-files in the IDL astro library use
> file_search() internally. Now I want to read a file name with square
> brackets (as this "[" and " this" ]" ) in it, but file_search seems to
> interpret the square brackets as regular expression. Is there a way to
> escape the brackets?
> Other suggestions?
> I don't really want to change the library routines not rename the
> files I have to read.

Yeah, I hear you. I want to play tennis and hike in
the mountains instead of going to work every day. :-(

Have you tried a back slash as an escape character?

Cheers,

David

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		Re: file_search: need work around for filenames with square brackets [ ] By: David Fanning on Sat, 06 June 2009 07:03
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