Category : Dbase (Clipper, FoxBase, etc) Languages Source Code
Archive   : RLIB.ZIP
Filename : RL_PATHT.PRG

 
Output of file : RL_PATHT.PRG contained in archive : RLIB.ZIP
* Function: PATHTO
* Author..: Richard Low
* Syntax..: PATHTO(exp) Where exp is name of file to find path to.
* Usage...: To find the DOS path pointing to a file.
* Returns.: DOS path pointing to filename specified by exp, or a NULL
* string if the file was not found in any of the paths.
*

FUNCTION PATHTO
PARAMETER p_filename
PRIVATE f_dospath, f_path

f_dospath = GETE('PATH') && get dos's path from environment (in EXTEND.LIB)
DO WHILE LEN(TRIM(f_dospath)) > 0 && parse for path to help files

IF ';' $ f_dospath && if a semicolon is found in path
f_path = TRIM(SUBSTR(f_dospath,1,AT(';',f_dospath)-1)) && parse each section of the path
ELSE && otherwise
f_path = TRIM(f_dospath) && only one path in the path
ENDIF

IF FILE( f_path + '\' + p_filename ) && found it
RETURN (f_path + '\')
ENDIF

IF ';' $ f_dospath
f_dospath = TRIM(SUBSTR(f_dospath,AT(';',f_dospath))) && snip off beginning of path before semicolon
IF LEN(f_dospath) = 1 && only a semicolon left
EXIT && quit looking
ENDIF && otherwise
f_dospath = SUBSTR(f_dospath,2) && snip off the leading semicolon
ELSE
EXIT
ENDIF

ENDDO
RETURN ('')


  3 Responses to “Category : Dbase (Clipper, FoxBase, etc) Languages Source Code
Archive   : RLIB.ZIP
Filename : RL_PATHT.PRG
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  1. Daniel says:
    January 27, 2013 at 3:59 pm

    Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!

  2. Joshie says:
    March 18, 2014 at 4:57 pm

    This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.

  3. DiskingRound says:
    January 14, 2015 at 10:57 pm

    But one thing that puzzles me is the “mtswslnkmcjklsdlsbdmMICROSOFT” string. There is an article about it here. It is definitely worth a read: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mtswslnk/