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IDL procedure "knowing its own name" [message #26425]

Wed, 29 August 2001 02:37

mperrin+news
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Registered: May 2001

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Let's say I'm running somethingorother.pro. Is there any way for the procedure
to itself determine that IDL is running a file called somethingorother.pro,
indeed, specifically /some/file/path/somethingorother.pro?

In more detail, what I've got is a script which processes a bunch of data
and produces some output which gets stored in a user-specified directory.
This script gets modified occasionally over time; it's useful to have a
copy of the script stored along with the data as a historical record so
that you can later look back and see exactly how the data was processed.
However, this tool is used on a number of different systems, and the
file path to the script varies from system to system. Right now I accomplish
this by hard-coding the path and name of the procedure as variables inside
the procedure, which means I have to change it by hand for each system.
Any ideas on how to automate this?

- Marshall

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