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dirname
get directory from filenames
Calling Sequence
dirs= dirname(files[,flag [,flagexpand]])
Arguments
- files
a string matrix giving a set of file names.
- flag,flagexpand
boolean optional parameters. (default value
%t).- files,dir
string matrices.
Description
dirname return the dirname of the file entries given in files.
If flag is true the files are first converted to the target
type given by the getos() == 'Windows' variable.
Moreover, if flagexpand is true leading strings like
HOME, SCI or ~ are expanded using environment
variables.
Note that dirname(files,%f) can give erroneous results if
pathnames given in files do not follow the convention
given by the getos() == 'Windows' variable.
Examples
files=dirname('SCI/modules/fileio/macros/poo.sci') files=dirname('SCI/modules\fileio/macros/poo.sci') files=dirname('SCI/modules\fileio/macros/poo.sci.k')
See Also
- basename — strip directory and suffix from filenames
- listfiles — list files
- pathconvert — pathnames convertion between POSIX and windows.
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