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Re: cd bug in IDL 5.5 [message #31091 is a reply to message #31068]

Mon, 17 June 2002 10:47

crono15m
Messages: 9
Registered: June 2002

Junior Member

> another, perhaps, bug i have discovered is that the file_expand_path
> expands from the current working directory (not very handy :x ), not the
> actual directory where the file might be. It should issue a warning if that
> file does not exist in the current directory, something like:

I too have noticed that file_expand_path doesn't work the way you
would hope
it would. As a solution I wrote my own "search" program that looks for
a file
and returns the full path to it. It will look outside of the working
directory. It returns an array of all paths fitting 'filename'. It's
probably not perfect but it works.

Hope this helps,

Ben Hilldore
Hope College Nuclear Research Group

function getFilePath, filename
dirs = expand_path('+c:\', /all_dirs, /array)
filenames = strarr(n_elements(dirs))
for i = 0,n_elements(dirs)-1 do begin
filenames[i] = findfile(dirs[i] + '\' + filename)
endfor
return, filenames[where(strlen(filenames) gt 1)]
end

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		cd bug in IDL 5.5 By: Wolfgang.Dobler on Mon, 03 June 2002 08:29
		Re: cd bug in IDL 5.5 By: R.Bauer on Tue, 18 June 2002 09:51
		Re: cd bug in IDL 5.5 By: crono15m on Tue, 18 June 2002 08:22
		Re: cd bug in IDL 5.5 By: crono15m on Tue, 18 June 2002 08:21
		Re: cd bug in IDL 5.5 By: R.Bauer on Tue, 18 June 2002 00:02
		Re: cd bug in IDL 5.5 By: crono15m on Mon, 17 June 2002 10:47

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