Re: Possible FINDFILE bug

[Bernard Puc <bpuc(at)va.aetc.com>]

	I received a note from RSI explaining that FINDFILE for UNIX was
changed in version 5.3 to fix the limitation imposed by using the UNIX
command ls.  An unintended consequence of that change is to not handle
filenames with whitespace characters properly.  A fix will be
implemented for IDL 5.4.

Nigel Wade wrote:
> 
> Bernard Puc wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> >         It seems that the findfile() function has changed between version 5.2
> > and 5.3.  In 5.2, findfile would return filenames that have a space in
> > them.  Version 5.3 does not.  This is on a Linux system.  Can anybody
> > verify this on other platforms?
> >
> > --
> > Bernard Puc                     AETC, INC.
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> 
> It's the same for IRIX 6.5.
> 
> $ touch "a b c"
> 
> $ idl_5.2
> IDL Version 5.2.1 (IRIX mipseb). (c) 1999, Research Systems, Inc.
> IDL> a=findfile("a*",count=b)
> IDL> print,a
> a b c
> IDL> print,b
>            1
> 
> $ idl_5.3
> IDL Version 5.3 (IRIX mipseb). (c) 1999, Research Systems, Inc.
> IDL> a=findfile("a*",count=b)
> IDL> print,a
> 
> IDL> print,b
>            0
> 
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> Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
>             University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
> E-mail :    nmw@ion.le.ac.uk
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