use pathname for SetDirectory
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg15586] use pathname for SetDirectory
- From: "wgrebe" <wgrebe at cityweb.de>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 04:23:19 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hallo, I have written a program which calls Mathematica via MathLink. However, the answere of my question needn't has to do with MathLink. In my program I read out the pathname from a FileDialog, for example "C:\FILES\TEXT.DAT" and send it to a package in Mathematica. Here (in the Mathematica-Package) I want to use it in a SetDirectory-command without the filename at the end and with double ' \': "C:\\FILES". Of course for the the conversion " \ -> \\ " I can call StringReplace but how can I get rid of the filename? Or does somebody have a different solution for my problem? Thank you Witold wgrebe at cityweb.de