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Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable [message #75798]

Tue, 03 May 2011 08:26

R.Bauer
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Registered: November 1998

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Am 03.05.2011 15:11, schrieb Craig Markwardt:
> On May 3, 6:20 am, Reimar Bauer <R.Ba...@fz-juelich.de> wrote:
>> Am 27.04.2011 19:57, schrieb Barry Lesht:
>>
>>> Not sure I'm expressing this correctly in the subject line - this is
>>> my problem: I have a code that ran fine under IDL7 that included the
>>> line "sta_list = READ_ASCII("$SEADAS/local/stationfile.txt,"
>>> TEMPLATE=stationtemplate). I just tried running the same code under
>>> IDL8 and now get the error message
>>
>> I tried with idl7.1
>>
>> IDL> print,"$HOME"
>>
>> and it just tells:
>> $HOME
>>
>> I don't remember that it ever worked without using getenv function.
>
> Careful. You tested the PRINT command, and I agree that "it" never
> automatically retrieved environment variables.
>
> On the other hand, OPEN has always expanded shell variables, for as
> long as I have known. And my experience is that shell variable
> expansion by OPEN still works within IDL 8.1.
>
> Craig
>
>

Oh yes, that works!

Reimar

>
>>
>>> % READ_ASCII: File "$SEADAS/local/stationfile.txt" not found.
>>
>>> The file is most definitely where it should be. After doing some
>>> experimenting, it seems IDL8 isn't getting any value for the $SEADAS
>>> variable.
>>
>>> I hope someone can explain to me why not and how to fix it?
>>
>>> Thanks.
>

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		Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable By: R.Bauer on Tue, 03 May 2011 08:26
		Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 03 May 2011 06:11
		Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable By: R.Bauer on Tue, 03 May 2011 03:20
		Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable By: Michael Galloy on Fri, 29 April 2011 20:38
		Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable By: BLesht on Thu, 28 April 2011 20:22
		Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 27 April 2011 14:37
		Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 27 April 2011 14:34
		Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable By: BLesht on Wed, 27 April 2011 14:14
		Re: IDL v8 not recognizing bash environment variable By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 27 April 2011 13:02

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