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Re: current directory [message #34277 is a reply to message #34275]

Mon, 03 March 2003 09:05

JD Smith
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Registered: December 1999

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On Sat, 01 Mar 2003 07:06:25 -0700, Ulf-Dietrich Braumann wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I wonder if there is some elegant way in IDL to i) determine the
> directory where the current running *.pro file
> is stored in order to
> ii) directly access some other stuff (i.e. images) just placed
> in the same directory as the "calling" *.pro
>
> Thanks and greetings
>
> Ulf-Dietrich

If you're trying to do what I think you're trying to do, here's the recipe
I always use:

source=(routine_info('my_routine',/SOURCE)).PATH
dir=strmid(source,0,strpos(source,path_sep(),/REVERSE_SEARCH ))

It should even be platform independent. You can use the callstack
stuff to find out the calling routine's name programmatically, to
replace "my_routine".

That said, I'm not sure how good of an idea it is to use the code
directories for data storage. You don't want people poking around in
there too much. I use this technique for reading in static data
bundled with the code, but never for writing.

JD

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		Re: current directory By: R.Bauer on Mon, 03 March 2003 09:16
		Re: current directory By: JD Smith on Mon, 03 March 2003 09:05
		Re: current directory By: Timm Weitkamp on Mon, 03 March 2003 09:00
		Re: current directory By: David Fanning on Sun, 02 March 2003 07:39
		Re: current directory By: Ulf-Dietrich Braumann on Sun, 02 March 2003 06:48
		Re: current directory By: R.Bauer on Sun, 02 March 2003 00:27
		Re: current directory By: David Fanning on Sat, 01 March 2003 16:03
		Re: current directory By: Ulf-Dietrich Braumann on Sat, 01 March 2003 14:44
		Re: current directory By: David Fanning on Sat, 01 March 2003 11:35
		Re: current directory By: R.Bauer on Sat, 01 March 2003 10:10
		Re: current directory By: R.Bauer on Sat, 01 March 2003 09:54
		Re: current directory By: David Fanning on Sat, 01 March 2003 07:01
		Re: current directory By: David Fanning on Sat, 01 March 2003 06:51
		Re: current directory By: Timm Weitkamp on Tue, 04 March 2003 02:13

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