02-11-2013
Your idea is correct, but as your code is absolutely unreadable, I only can guess that the variable alDFid is undefined when used to build the external command.
And, of course, you have an unterminated string, i.e. one unmatched double quote (I guess in the printf statement)
Last edited by RudiC; 02-11-2013 at 07:10 AM..
Reason: typo / addendum
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