Subj : Re: Varrible assignments
To   : Finnigann
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat Sep 08 2007 11:29 pm

  Re: Re: Varrible assignments
  By: Finnigann to Digital Man on Sat Sep 08 2007 11:18 pm

 > -=> With regards to the social ramifications;
 >      Digital Man wrote to Finnigann <=-
 > 
 >  DM>   Re: Varrible assignments
 >  DM>   By: Finnigann to All on Sat Sep 08 2007 10:42 am
 > 
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >   How would I get the file extention into a varrible?
 >  >
 >  >   [Example]
 >  >
 >  >   Contest.845  file name,
 >  >            ^^
 >  >   which would change from week to week as part of the extention (last
 >  >   two digits are the week of the year).
 >  >
 >  >   If your reply doesn't show how to get the file name into a varrible,
 >  >   how might that be done, too.
 >  >
 >  >   advThanksance.
 >  >
 >  >   In the  I'm-gonna-hate-myself-in-the-morning dept...I downloaded Jas'
 >  >   oneliner program (with .SRC) and am actually learning from it. Thanks.
 > 
 >  DM> If the filename portion is fixed-length (e.g. always "Contest", 7
 >  DM> chars), then the following would work:
 > 
 >  DM> str extension
 >  DM> copy extension filename
 >  DM> shift_str extension 7     # filename portion is always 7 chars
 > 
 > 
 >  Would the dot count as a space?

It's a character, yeah.

 >  contest.845
 >  12345678

Yeah, I usually think of the dot as part of the extension. Shift 8 chars if you
don't want the dot in your string.

 >  DM> str extension           # defining varrible 'extention' as a string
 >  DM> copy extension filename # I'm gonna have to hard code the filename
 >                              # right?
 >  DM> shift_str extension 7   # filename portion is always 7 chars
 > 
 > 
 >  The filename (CONTEST) stays the same, will wild cards work in BAJA for
 >  the extention?

In strings, any/all characters are valid.

 >    copy extention contest.???  # Making sure that there are never more
 >                                # than one file name in the work dir.

I'm not really sure what you're trying to do there. If you want to find if a
file exists on disk, using wildcards, use the CHKFILE function or the
OPEN_DIR/READ_DIR/CLOSE_DIR functions.

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