| Re: Directory separators [message #23758] |
Tue, 13 February 2001 09:43  |
hahn
Messages: 108
Registered: November 1993
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Ben Tupper <btupper@bigelow.org> wrote:
> Howdy,
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> I have been using the following function to select the appropriate OS
> specific directory separator. I have two questions about it: (1) what
> is the correct directory separator in VMS?,
VMS uses brackets to enclose the directory information as a whole
and periods to delimit subdirectory names. In case of logical names
more than one pair of brackets may occur...
> and (2) is there a built-in
> means of getting the same information?
You may use filepath to set a file name independend of on OS.
Parts of the directory will be given as elements of a string
array.
Norbert
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| Re: Directory separators [message #23760 is a reply to message #23758] |
Tue, 13 February 2001 08:32  |
Dave Greenwood
Messages: 33
Registered: October 2000
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Ben Tupper <btupper@bigelow.org> wrote:
> Howdy,
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> I have been using the following function to select the appropriate OS
> specific directory separator. I have two questions about it: (1) what
> is the correct directory separator in VMS?, and (2) is there a built-in
> means of getting the same information?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben
>
> ;------START
> FUNCTION SYSSEP
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> Case StrLowCase(!Version.OS_Family) of
> 'unix': Return, '/'
> 'win': Return,'\'
> 'macos': Return,':'
> 'vms': Return, ''
> Else: Return, ''
> EndCase
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> End
> ;---------END
Paul van Delst is correct that "." separates subdirectories in VMS.
However, the most frequent use that I've seen for a case statement like
the above is to separate the directory specification from a file name.
In that case you'd want "]". To complete Paul's example:
DISK$NAME1:[PAULV.DIR.SUBDIR.SUBSUBDIR]filename.ext
Dave
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Dave Greenwood Email: Greenwoodde@ORNL.GOV
Oak Ridge National Lab %STD-W-DISCLAIMER, I only speak for myself
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| Re: Directory separators [message #24447 is a reply to message #23760] |
Wed, 28 March 2001 14:41 |
George Constantinides
Messages: 16
Registered: July 2000
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>
>>
>> I have been using the following function to select the appropriate OS
>> specific directory separator. I have two questions about it: (1) what
>> is the correct directory separator in VMS?, and (2) is there a built-in
>> means of getting the same information?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ben
>>
>> ;------START
>> FUNCTION SYSSEP
>>
>> Case StrLowCase(!Version.OS_Family) of
>> 'unix': Return, '/'
>> 'win': Return,'\'
>> 'macos': Return,':'
>> 'vms': Return, ''
>> Else: Return, ''
>> EndCase
>>
>> End
>> ;---------END
>
> Paul van Delst is correct that "." separates subdirectories in VMS.
> However, the most frequent use that I've seen for a case statement like
> the above is to separate the directory specification from a file name.
> In that case you'd want "]". To complete Paul's example:
>
> DISK$NAME1:[PAULV.DIR.SUBDIR.SUBSUBDIR]filename.ext
>
In VMS you may also get a file path define via a logical such as:
$ DEFINE DIR_PATH DISK$NAME1:[PAULV.DIR.SUBDIR.SUBSUBDIR]
in which case the above file spec becomes DIR_PATH:filename.ext
So you also need to search for ":" as well as "]". To do this you can
use a regular expression as show below.
;----------------------------------------------------------- --
Function ExtrFileName, FullFileSpec
; Given the full file spec extract the file name. (vms case)
f= StrSplit(FullFileSpec,'^*:|^*\]',/Extract)
f = f[N_Elements(f)-1]
f= StrSplit(f,';*$',/Extract)
Return, f[0]
End
;----------------------------------------------------------- ---
Regards,
George Constantinides
Manly Hydraulics Laboratory
email: GeorgeC@mhl.nsw.gov.au
URL http://www.mhl.nsw.gov.au
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