dirname - get directory from filenames

Calling Sequence

dirs= dirname(files[,flag [,flagexpand]])

Parameters

• 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 MSDOS 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 MSDOS variable.

Examples

files=dirname('SCI/macros/util/poo.sci')
files=dirname('SCI/macros\util/poo.sci')
files=dirname('SCI/macros\util/poo.sci.k')
 

See Also

basename  listfiles  pathconvert