Man Scilab

dirname
Scilab Function

dirname - get directory from filenames

Calling Sequence

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

Parameters

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 ,  

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