Perhaps I misunderstand, but it looks like ~filefolder is that described in https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Guides/Folders_and_Projects .
Note that folders can be defined on the fly, e.g. you could run UserFolders_j_=: UserFolders_j_,'filefolder';'/my/path' and then: jpath'~filefolder' /my/path On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 8:58 AM Jinwoo Lee <jinwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > When my script file loads other files that I write, it would be very > convenient if we had a special jpath syntax for the folder that contains > the current file. For example, let's say my script is at /my/path/foo.ijs, > and it loads bar.ijs from the same folder. > > load 'bar.ijs' > ... > > Or it loads baz.ijs from a subfolder. > > load 'libs/baz.ijs' > ... > > But this works only when I run the script from the /my/path folder. If I > run it from, say, my home directory, load would fail to locate bar.ijs. > > If J provides a special path syntax, say, '~filefolder', I'll be able to do > > load '~filefolder/bar.ijs' > ... > > or > > load '~filefolder/libs/baz.ijs' > ... > > I'll be able to use ARGV_z_ to extract it but that would work only for the > main script file. > > Does this make sense? Or am I missing something obvious? > > Cheers, > Jinwoo > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
