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Re: Naming the file as open through dialogue_pickfile [message #92749 is a reply to message #92748]

Tue, 23 February 2016 07:23

Mats Löfdahl
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Den tisdag 23 februari 2016 kl. 15:27:56 UTC+1 skrev Jeff B:
> On Monday, February 22, 2016 at 11:33:35 PM UTC-6, mj99...@gmail.com wrote:
>> I am trying to read a file through the command
>>
>> path='C:\LWP\'
>> file=dialog_pickfile(PATH =path,filter ='*TXT')
>>
>> which has data to read and it is stored in some array.
>> The file names in the "PATH" folder has a sequence "A1.txt", "A2.txt", .... and 15 others.
>>
>> Now I want to store the data in some another file.
>> I want to store data in a new sequence such as "MA1.txt", which suggests the file has been read.
>> so i want to add "M" in the newly saved file name along with old file name.
>>
>> EX:
>> "M"+ "(original file name)".TXT
>>
>> Is it possible in IDL 8.4 Win PC ?
>
> Since the output of dialog_pickfile() is a string you can use strmid() to remove the path. For example,

Or file_basename().

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		Naming the file as open through dialogue_pickfile By: mj999fine on Mon, 22 February 2016 21:33
		Re: Naming the file as open through dialogue_pickfile By: Burch on Tue, 23 February 2016 06:27
		Re: Naming the file as open through dialogue_pickfile By: Mats Löfdahl on Tue, 23 February 2016 07:23

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