Re: help with findfile

["David Miller" <dom(at)virl.gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Craig,

Thanks, that works perfectly.

-Dave

"Craig Markwardt" <craigmnet@cow.physics.wisc.edu> wrote in message
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> "David Miller" <dom@virl.gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:
>
> > I am using the FINDFILE routine to list all of the available data files
in a
> > particular directory. I then search through the list to get starting and
> > ending points for a particular image. However, the filenames returned by
> > FINDFILE are not in order (alphabetical), they are all mixed up. Any way
to
> > get them in order? I am using IDL 5.4 on Win 2000.
>
> Will the SORT command help?  Ie,
>
> NAMES = NAMES(SORT(NAMES)))
>
> Craig
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