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Re: IDL procedure "knowing its own name" [message #26423 is a reply to message #26420]

Wed, 29 August 2001 05:58

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Marshall Perrin (mperrin+news@arkham.berkeley.edu) writes:

> 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?

You can use Help, /Source to find the
specific path of compiled procedures and
functions.

> 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?

I think you could use this:

Help, /Source, Output=helpoutput

to get the source output in a string array. Then it should
be fairly easy to fish the proper line out of the helpoutput
string array to indicate where the file came from

Cheers,

David

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		Re: IDL procedure "knowing its own name" By: Martin Schultz on Fri, 31 August 2001 00:44
		Re: IDL procedure "knowing its own name" By: mperrin+news on Wed, 29 August 2001 13:17
		Re: IDL procedure "knowing its own name" By: Liam E. Gumley on Wed, 29 August 2001 07:36
		Re: IDL procedure "knowing its own name" By: David Fanning on Wed, 29 August 2001 05:58
		Re: IDL procedure "knowing its own name" By: R.Bauer on Wed, 29 August 2001 03:20

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