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Re: path to .sav file [message #50917 is a reply to message #50915]

Mon, 23 October 2006 09:06

Douglas G. Dirks
Messages: 10
Registered: October 2006

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Ben Tupper wrote:
> greg michael wrote:
>> I'm sure there must be any easy answer to this, but I can't figure it
>> out...
>>
>> If a VM program is run with something like:
>>
>> idl -vm=...path.../myprog.sav
>>
>> how can I get that path from within the program?
>>
>> Greg
>>
> Hello,
>
> I think you want somethong like Jim Pendleton's SOURCEPATH.pro which you
> can find at http://www.ittvis.com/codebank
>
> Ben

ROUTINE_INFO will give you the path to the source of any compiled
routine, provided you know its name, and it works all the way back
to IDL 5.0:

routinepath = ROUTINE_INFO('myprog', /SOURCE)

(assuming that myprog.sav has a main routine called 'myprog'...)

Add in FILE_DIRNAME (IDL 6.0 or later) and you've got what you want,
I think:

routinedir = FILE_DIRNAME(routinepath.path)

You can use the MARK_DIRECTORY keyword to FILE_DIRNAME to get a
trailing directory separator.

Nothing against SOURCEPATH or PROGRAMROOTDIR, but if all you want
is to know the path from which a routine was compiled, you can do
it with IDL internal routines.

Doug

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		Re: path to .sav file By: David Fanning on Mon, 23 October 2006 14:21
		Re: path to .sav file By: JD Smith on Mon, 23 October 2006 13:22
		Re: path to .sav file By: David Fanning on Mon, 23 October 2006 09:27
		Re: path to .sav file By: David Fanning on Mon, 23 October 2006 09:22
		Re: path to .sav file By: Douglas G. Dirks on Mon, 23 October 2006 09:06
		Re: path to .sav file By: btt on Mon, 23 October 2006 06:57
		Re: path to .sav file By: David Fanning on Mon, 23 October 2006 06:41
		Re: path to .sav file By: greg michael on Mon, 23 October 2006 06:06
		Re: path to .sav file By: David Fanning on Mon, 23 October 2006 05:50
		Re: path to .sav file By: btt on Mon, 23 October 2006 05:39
		Re: path to .sav file By: greg michael on Mon, 23 October 2006 05:30
		Re: path to .sav file By: Allan Whiteford on Mon, 23 October 2006 03:55

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