Re: Directory of the open notebook
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- Subject: [mg20913] Re: Directory of the open notebook
- From: paulh at monon.wolfram.com (P.J. Hinton)
- Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 18:47:20 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: "Wolfram Research, Inc."
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In article <812ahm$1h8 at smc.vnet.net>, "Tom De Vries" <tdevries at shop.westworld.ca> writes: >I was wondering how to find out the directory of the >selected notebook? > >I would like to send a group of files and folders together to another user. > If they were to import the graphic, it would be handy to be able to >specify the "relative" location of the file to import. I.E. ask >Mathematica to look in the directory where the currently selected notebook >lies and there is where the graphic to import will be. > >Hope that made sense? This little snippet will return a string with the full path to the notebook, provided that it has been saved to a file. DirectoryName[ ToFileName["FileName" /. NotebookInformation[EvaluationNotebook[]]]] NotebookInformation[] is documented in Glynn & Gray, I believe. -- P.J. Hinton Mathematica Programming Group paulh at wolfram.com Wolfram Research, Inc. Disclaimer: Opinions expressed herein are those of the author alone.