PATHNAME problem

VL2008
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Joined: 2008-05-01
Location: United Kingdom

Can anybody help me, plz?

is this a correct way to specify pathname ?

pathname = "C:try"


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Joined: 2007-06-29
Location: United States

VL2008 wrote:
Can anybody help me, plz?

is this a correct way to specify pathname ?

pathname = "C:try"

It depends what you are trying to do with the path.

Igor has a concept of a "symbolic path"; you create one with the NewPath operation. Read about symbolic paths by executing this command on Igor's command line:

DisplayHelpTopic "Symbolic Paths"

Certain operations in Igor that need a file name can take a string expression with a path to the file. In that case, your example would work as long as pathname is the name of a string variable.

If you are asking about the use of Macintosh-style paths (even on Windows!) then you can read about that by executing this command:

DisplayHelpTopic "File System Issues"

John Weeks
WaveMetrics, Inc.
support@wavemetrics.com


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