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tilde file names in FINDFILE [message #10013]

Fri, 26 September 1997 00:00

Martin Schultz
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Registered: August 1997

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Hi everyone,

I am still using IDL 4 and AIX 3.2.5, but that shouldn't really matter
for the following question, I suppose:

When I am opening a file with
OPENR,unit,'~/IDL/DATA/test.dat',/get_lun
it works fine. But if I try to find that file via
PRINT,FINDFILE('~/IDL/DATA/test.dat')
I get an empty string indicating that IDL did not find it.

Does anyone know how to teach IDL to accept the '~' in FINDFILE ?
One option might be to use SPAWN,'echo $HOME',result but
(a) is this highly OS dependent
(b) does it not work for something like ~user/file.dat
Any ideas appreciated !

Martin Schultz

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e-mail : mgs@io.harvard.edu
idl web page: http://www-as.harvard.edu/people/staff/mgs/idl/
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