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Current Questions
Quotes in DAG VARS
I was helping SSA with a syntax problem between HTCondor-9 and HTCondor-10 and I was wondering if you had any thoughts on it. They have a dag with lines like this
JOB SqDeg2/J232156-603000 split.condor
VARS SqDeg2/J232156-603000 jobname="$(JOB)" split_dir="SqDeg2/J232156+603000"
Then they set that split_dir VAR to a variable in the submit description file like this
SPLIT_DIR = "$(split_dir)"
The problem seems to be the quotes around $(split_dir). It works fine in HTCondor-9 but with HTCondor-10 they get an error like this in their pims_split.dag.dagman.out file
02/28/24 16:26:02 submit error: Submit:-1:Unexpected characters following doublequote. Did you forget to escape the double-quote by repeating it? Here is the quote and trailing characters: "SqDeg2/J232156+603000""
Looking at the documentation https://htcondor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/version-history/lts-versions-10-0.html#version-10-0-0 its clear they shouldn't be putting quotes around $(split_dir). So clearly something changed with version 10. Either a change to the syntax or, my guess, just a stricter parser.
Any thoughts on this?
Felipe's code
Felipe to share his job visualization software with Greg and maybe present at Throughput 2024.
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