Re: Path handling in different OSs??

[Martin Schultz <martin.schultz(at)dkrz.de>]

Markus Feldt wrote:
> 
> Hi out there,
> 
>   did anybody bother to write some helpers for handling pathnames under
> different OSs in IDL (something like "path_to_os") or so?  Something
> that replaces "/" bei "\" or ":" and appends ":" under MAC if needed? Or
> is there some implemented function in idl which allows accessing
> directory structures under differing OSs?  Just asking,  if not,  I'll
> write it myself...
> 
>    Thanks
> 
>            Markus
> 

Take a look at the built-in FILEPATH function. And since it's source
code is
available ...

Cheers,
Martin

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