use pathname for SetDirectory
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- 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