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Re: path to .sav file [message #50938 is a reply to message #50934]

Mon, 23 October 2006 03:55

Allan Whiteford
Messages: 117
Registered: June 2006

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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
>

Greg,

It's not pretty but:

help,/source,output=a
idx=where(stregex(a,'myprog +([/,a-z,0-9,_,\.]*)',/fold_case) eq 0)
file=(stregex(a[idx],'myprog +([/,a-z,0-9,_,\.]*)',$
/fold_case,/subexpr,/extract))[1]

I'm sure there is a better way.

Thanks,

Allan

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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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