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dirname
gets directory from filenames
Syntax
dirs = dirname(files[, flag [,flagexpand]])
Arguments
- files
a string matrix containing file paths
- flag
optional boolean, used to convert the given path(s) for the current operating system. Default value is true (
%t).- flagexpand
optional boolean, used to expand leading variables in paths. Only used with
flagargument. Default value is true (%t).- dirs
string matrices
Description
dirname returns the directory paths of the file entries
given in files.
If flag is true the paths are first
converted for the current operating system (for example,
C:/Tmp/folder' will be converted on Windows to
'C:\Tmp\folder').
If flagexpand is true, leading path
variables (home,
SCI, SCIHOME,
...) are expanded for the current operating system (for
example, 'home\tmp' will be converted on
GNU/Linux to 'home/<user>/tmp',
where <user> is the current user
logged on).
See more details on flag and
flagexpand
in pathconvert section.
Examples
dirs=dirname('/tmp/folder/poo') dirs=dirname('/tmp/folder/') dirs=dirname('/') dirs=dirname('C:\tmp\folder\poo') dirs=dirname('C:\tmp\folder\') dirs=dirname('C:\') dirs=dirname(['SCI/etc/scilab.start', 'SCI/etc/scilab.quit'])
See also
- basename — strip directory and suffix from filenames
- listfiles — list of files
- pathconvert — converts a path to an OS path format.
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