pathconvert - pathnames convertion between posix and windows.

Calling Sequence

paths=pathconvert(paths [,flagtrail [,flagexpand [,type]]])

Parameters

• paths : a string matrix giving a set of pathnames
• flagtrail,flagexpand : boolean optional parameters (default value depends on the MSDOS variable).
• type : a string 'u' or 'w'.

Description

pathconvert can be used to convert a set of pathnames (given by a string matrix paths) from windows native filename to posix-style pathnames and back. The target style is given by the optional string type which can be 'u' for Unix or 'w' for Windows. The default style is set according to the value of MSDOS. If MSDOS is true (resp. false ) then default type is 'w' (resp. 'u').

Windows pathnames starting with name: are converted to pathnames starting with /cygdrive/name/ using the cygwin convention.

flagtrail is an optional boolean parameter. When its value is true a trailing separator ('\' or '/') is added at the end of the path.

flagexpand is an optional boolean parameter. When its value is true leading strings like HOME, SCI or ~ are expanded using environment variables.

Examples

pathconvert('SCI/macros\util/foo.sci',%f,%f,'u')
pathconvert('SCI/macros\util/foo.sci',%f,%f,'w')
pathconvert('SCI/macros/util/foo.sci',%f,%t,'w')
pathconvert('HOME/macros/util/foo.sci',%t,%t,'w')
pathconvert('c:/tmp',%f,%t,'u')
pathconvert('/cygdrive/c/tmp',%f,%f,'w')
 

See Also

basename  listfiles