Thanks for that ... argh, I went a looong time without seeing it. On Saturday, 25 August 2012 01:21:39 UTC-4, Mark Hahn wrote: > > __dirname has two underscores in the beginning, not one. > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:46 PM, MikeB_2012 <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> To test an error appearing in a larger script, I made a very short script >> called 'a.js' which contains one line: console.log(_dirname); . I expected >> to get the directory name but got an error instead (below). I have node >> installed on a usb drive plugged in to a Win7 machine. >> >> >> K:\nodejs>node_x64 --version >> v0.8.8 >> >> K:\nodejs>node_x64 a.js >> >> K:\nodejs\a.js:1 >> ion (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { >> console.log(_dirname); >> ^ >> ReferenceError: _dirname is not defined >> at Object.<anonymous> (K:\nodejs\a.js:1:75) >> at Module._compile (module.js:449:26) >> at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:467:10) >> at Module.load (module.js:356:32) >> at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12) >> at Module.runMain (module.js:492:10) >> at process.startup.processNextTick.process._tickCallback >> (node.js:244:9) >> >> K:\nodejs> >> >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> > >
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