Actually, with MC 2.4.2 and above, you can use regular expressions (yeah, it's the RegEx guy again... ;-) to do this:
function AppPath local tPath get matchText(the effective fileName of this stack,"(.*\/)",tPath) return tPath end AppPath For those of you trying to pick up RegEx, the code here: (.*\/) Means this: .* => Match all characters starting from the first character of the string (the effective filename of this stack)... \/ => ... until you match a '/' (the '\' is to 'escape' the forward slash), and then keep going until you match the last '/' in the string. ( ) => ... and return what you found in the first variable supplied to the matchText function (tPath). The key here is that .* is a "greedy match", which means it will match everything until the *last* match of the forward slash. If you use .*?, it will only go to the first match of the forward slash (which would return the volume the stack was on). Examples: If "the effective filename of this stack" is "C:/Development/MyStuff/MyProject.mc", then: using (.*\/) would return: C:/Development/MyStuff/ and using (.*?\/) would return: C:/ Yes, yes, I know... I'm still working on putting together a RegEx tutorial... :-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dominique" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 3:00 PM Subject: Re: Stack Directory? > > function AppPath > > put the filename of <mainstackName> into tPath > > set the delimiter to "/" > > delete last item of tPath > > return tPath &"/" > > end AppPath > > Beautiful :-) > > > -- > Regards, > (-8 Dominique > _______________________________________________ > metacard mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard > _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
