Re: [Condor-users] Unix file path as DAGMan variable

["R. Kent Wenger" <wenger@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 25 May 2006, o c wrote:

> I tested this and it works fine.

Okay, good!

> Also I don't think it is documented (at least I
> haven't seen it) but varible names with underscores in
> them don't go down too well with DAGMan either.
>
> It seems varible names should just be alphabetic
> strings.
> I get "Failed to parse dagfile" if I use names like
> SOME_VAR.
>
> No harm to specify the syntax for varible names in the
> DAGMan section of the manual.

Hmm, I actually wasn't aware of that.  I'll add info to the manual.

I just added a note that you can't have a variable that starts with
"queue", and DAGMan will explicitly reject such a variable name.

Kent Wenger
Condor Team