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Re: file_basename(): bug or feature? [message #42770 is a reply to message #42769]

Thu, 24 February 2005 13:40

Paul Van Delst[1]
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David Fanning wrote:
> Benjamin Hornberger writes:
>
>
>> On Unix machines, IDL's file_basename() function doesn't split a path in
>> Windows format (with backslashes). On Windows machines, it splits both
>> (yes, I know, on Windows you can also use both to specify a path). Is
>> this a bug or a feature?
>>
>> Linux:
>>
>> IDL> filename='d:\path\to\file.ex
>> IDL> print,file_basename(filename)
>> d:\path\to\file.ex
>> IDL> filename='d:/path/to/file.ex'
>> IDL> print,file_basename(filename)
>> file.ex
>>
>> Windows:
>>
>> IDL> filename='d:\path\to\file.ex'
>> IDL> print,file_basename(filename)
>> file.ex
>> IDL> filename='d:/path/to/file.ex'
>> IDL> print,file_basename(filename)
>> file.ex
>>
>> I have a situation where a Linux machine has to handle Windows paths,
>> where this is quite annoying ...
>>
>> Any comments?
>
>
> I'm not sure it's a bug OR a feature. More likely the
> sensible way to write the program, given the original
> purpose. :-)
>
> My FSC_BASE_FILENAME program has the same problem,
> simply because I use PATH_SEP to obtain the path
> separator. I think it would be difficult to write
> a generic routine to handle all types of path separators
> properly,

Couldn't you just loop over the types of path separators? (e.g. ['/','\',':',..etc] for
the various systems? Are any of the path separators on different systems allowable
filename characters on others?

paulv

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		Re: file_basename(): bug or feature? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 24 February 2005 14:08
		Re: file_basename(): bug or feature? By: James Kuyper on Thu, 24 February 2005 13:48
		Re: file_basename(): bug or feature? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 24 February 2005 13:40
		Re: file_basename(): bug or feature? By: Benjamin Hornberger on Thu, 24 February 2005 13:34
		Re: file_basename(): bug or feature? By: David Fanning on Thu, 24 February 2005 13:28

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