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splitting strings

2003-02-14T06:32:12-04:00

btw.. love your "graphical" demonstration GodOfSuicide

that was the way i do it in delphi....so i tried to symbolize my way

Statistics: Posted by GodOfSuicide — Fri Feb 14, 2003 6:32 am

splitting strings

2003-02-14T06:18:34-04:00

Make it four!

set fullfile "/path/to/file.ext"
regexp {(^.*)/([^/]*$)} $fullfile match dirname filename

ppslim's way is best though

Statistics: Posted by stdragon — Fri Feb 14, 2003 6:18 am

splitting strings

2003-02-14T06:08:41-04:00

Haha, now you have 3 types to choose from

Statistics: Posted by caesar — Fri Feb 14, 2003 6:08 am

splitting strings

2003-02-14T05:41:07-04:00

Tcl has a lovely set of built in commands, for operating on filenames.

What makes it even better, it works on ALL OS's. Meanign there are nor incompatabilities between scripts.

Code:

set fullfile "/my/file/is/here/and/called/ppslim.doc"set dirname [file dirname $fullfile]set filename [file tail $fullfile]

Statistics: Posted by ppslim — Fri Feb 14, 2003 5:41 am

splitting strings

2003-02-14T04:59:01-04:00

or:

Code:

set line "/path/to/a/dir/and/file.txt" set dir [lindex [split $line /] end]  #will return "file.txt"set file [join [lrange [split $line /] 0 end-1] /]  #will return "/path/to/a/dir/and"

this will give you both dir and filename, even if you don't know the filename

btw.. love your "graphical" demonstration GodOfSuicide

Statistics: Posted by Papillon — Fri Feb 14, 2003 4:59 am

splitting strings

2003-02-14T04:47:10-04:00

set line "/path/to/a/dir/and/file.txt"
set result [string trim $line "file.txt"]

result: /path/to/a/dir/and/

Statistics: Posted by caesar — Fri Feb 14, 2003 4:47 am

splitting strings

2003-02-14T04:42:16-04:00

i'm not that good in tcl, but i can tell you what logical way you have to go:

cos in the filename ther cant be a "/" character you have to find the position of the last "/" in the string.

Then copy all from first character in the string to the position you just found into a variable. Do the same from the position you found + 1 to the last character. Then you have split it up.

/path/to/a/dir/and/file.txt
______________|
find this one

/path/to/a/dir/and/file.txt
|---------------------|
copy from start till last "/"

/path/to/a/dir/and/file.txt
_______________|------|
copy from last "/" + 1 to end.

now somebody who knows TCL got to write the code, but i hope my theoretical method can help.

(board unformated my " "'s, so i just made "_"'s)

Statistics: Posted by GodOfSuicide — Fri Feb 14, 2003 4:42 am

splitting strings

2003-02-14T04:18:49-04:00

I have this
$string /path/to/a/dir/and/file.txt

i want to split it, have one variable with the full path but no file
and another with just the fille name, how do i go about that??

Statistics: Posted by sirkrunch — Fri Feb 14, 2003 4:18 am