[Scilab-users] Running external program

[Lester Anderson]

Thanks Samuel for the clarification. Adding the double quotes worked
fine. Will this work with single quotes in v6 as in the original
syntax?

On 3 December 2015 at 18:14, Samuel Gougeon <sgougeon at free.fr> wrote:
> Le 03/12/2015 17:47, Dang Ngoc Chan, Christophe a écrit :
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>> De : Lester Anderson
>>> Envoyé : jeudi 3 décembre 2015 16:56
>>>
>>> dos('grdinfo FAA.grd -C | gawk "{nx=$10; ny=$11}; {print nx, ny}" >
>>> nxy.txt','-echo')
>>>                                       !--error 3 Waiting for right
>>> parenthesis.
>>
>> In some cases, you need to use two quotes to tell that you want the
>> character quote and that it is not the end of the string.
>>
>> Don't know if it applies here, but maybe you could try.
>
> Yes indeed, it is clearly a problem here. In Scilab 5, a string started with
> " can be terminated with ' , and vice-versa. This tolerance is no longer
> accepted with Scilab 6.
> So here,
>
> dos('grdinfo FAA.grd -C | gawk ""{nx=$10; ny=$11}; {print nx, ny}"" >
> nxy.txt','-echo')
> must be used.
>
> Samuel Gougeon
>
>
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