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Re: reading shapefiles & IDL objects [message #78764]

Wed, 21 December 2011 08:18

Russell[1]
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Registered: August 2011

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Are you sure that the file 'pivot6.shp' is a valid shape file?

IDLffShape will return a null pointer if the file is invalid....

Russell

On Dec 21, 11:06 am, desertdryad <dry...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 20, 8:56 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
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>> desertdryad writes:
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>>> Now, I know for certain that the shapefile exists whose name gets
>>> passed as 'filename' and I've specified the path at the command line.
>>> Yet, I get this error:
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>>> ENVI> testme = readshape('C:\\etotest\pivot6.shp')
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>>> MYSHAPE OBJREF = <NullObject>
>>> % Stop encountered: READSHAPE 7 C:\Cyndys\Default
>>> \readshape.pro
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>>> What on Earth am I doing wrong, here? Please advise.
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>> It looks to me like there is an extra slash in the
>> filename. Shouldn't the file name be this:
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>> filename = 'C:\etotest\pivot6.shp'
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> Yes; but it makes no difference!

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		Re: reading shapefiles & IDL objects By: Russell[1] on Wed, 21 December 2011 08:18
		Re: reading shapefiles & IDL objects By: David Fanning on Wed, 21 December 2011 08:09
		Re: reading shapefiles & IDL objects By: desertdryad on Wed, 21 December 2011 08:06
		Re: reading shapefiles & IDL objects By: David Fanning on Tue, 20 December 2011 19:56
		Re: reading shapefiles & IDL objects By: desertdryad on Wed, 21 December 2011 10:00

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