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Re: Loading .csv files


From: Søren Hauberg
Subject: Re: Loading .csv files
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 23:13:43 +0200
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Couldn't one simply do something like this

if (exists(datapath))
  use datapath
else
  use loadpath
endif

/Soren

John W. Eaton wrote:
On 16-May-2005, Mike Miller wrote:

| On Mon, 16 May 2005, John W. Eaton wrote:
| | > If we have a separate datapath that is initially the same as loadpath, | > what happens when a user adds (removes) directories from the loadpath? | > For compatibility, they would expect that load would find (skip) files | > in those directories. So we might as well have just one path to search | > for both program and data files. | | Is there a way to link the two together so that as one changes the other | is also changed? I think shell variables (e.g., in tcsh) like 'PATH' and | 'path' are linked this way. The user would have the option of unlinking | them.

There is no way to do this now.  It might be useful to have a feature
like this, but I don't plan to spend the time to implement it myself.

jwe



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