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g3nrw
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pwd equivalent?
« Thread started on: Sep 21st, 2013, 4:57pm » |
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I want to dynamically discover the current Windows folder at runtime. Is there a way to do this?
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Re: pwd equivalent?
« Reply #2 on: Sep 22nd, 2013, 08:53am » |
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Many thanks Richard. I discovered the links you mentioned soon after I posted -- there is so *much* excellent documentation to plough through!
Now another, even simpler, question to do with directories. I want to dynamically create a subfolder, called (for example) sub1, sub2, sub3, subn etc.
I have tried something like:
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subfolder_name$ = "sub1"
*MKDIR subfolder_name$
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but that just creates a folder called literally "subfolder_name$". Is there any way to express the name as a variable when using*MKDIR?
Another simple question: if the folder already exists, I get the "File exists" message. How can I trap (and ignore) this?
Sorry for the very basic questions. I really have dug through all the documentation I can find, and spent a long (interesting) time experimenting!
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Re: pwd equivalent?
« Reply #3 on: Sep 22nd, 2013, 10:01am » |
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on Sep 22nd, 2013, 08:53am, g3nrw wrote:I have tried something like:
Code:subfolder_name$ = "sub1"
*MKDIR subfolder_name$ |
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See the Help file under 'Operating system interface... Accessing star commands':
http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcwin/manual/bbcwin8.html#accessing
There it says "OSCLI must be used when all or part of the star command needs to be determined at run-time (i.e. is a variable rather than a constant)".
In the section on MKDIR there is code listed specifically to do what you want:
Code:OSCLI "MKDIR """+directory$+""""
Quote:| Another simple question: if the folder already exists, I get the "File exists" message. How can I trap (and ignore) this? |
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You basically have three options:
Test whether the directory exists first. You can easily do that by attempting to open the virtual file NUL which exists in every directory:
Code: exists% = OPENIN(directory$ + "\NUL")
IF exists% CLOSE #exists% ELSE OSCLI "MKDIR """+directory$+""""
Wrap the MKDIR call in a procedure and trap errors locally:
Code: DEF PROCmkdir(directory$)
ON ERROR LOCAL ENDPROC
OSCLI "MKDIR """+directory$+""""
ENDPROC
Use the Windows API, and ignore the returned value:
Code: SYS "CreateDirectory", directory$, 0
Richard.
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