[Jprogramming] Setting the path in J?

[Sprague, Webb (OFM)]

Thanks for the answer, but it isn't quite what I am after --  I am hoping to set the *search path* for files which are loaded or required by a script.

In a shell script, I would do this:

PATH="/my/special/path:$PATH"

Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: programming-bounces at jsoftware.com on behalf of Mark Allen
Sent: Fri 4/16/2010 2:40 AM
To: Programming forum
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Setting the path in J?
 
There's probably a 'proper' way to do this in Preferences, but the way I do
it, is with a line in my startup.ijs like

cd =: 1!:44
cd 'C:\RandomDirectory\'

Another useful command is

pwd =: '1!:43'

e.g.

pwd =. 1!:43
pwd ''
C:\RandomDirectory\

This is probably a completely ass-backwards way of doing things, like I
said, there's probably a proper way to set default paths in Configure, but
this is probably a good enough workaround till one of the pros gives you the
real answer :)

On 15 April 2010 20:32, Sprague, Webb (OFM) <Webb.Sprague at ofm.wa.gov> wrote:

> Is there a way to append scripts to the default path in J?  (Sorry if my
> lingo is basically from shell scripting...)
>
> Basically, if I have a bunch of require 'blah' statements, I want my
> script to look in certain directories first and try to snarf them from
> there.
>
> Thanks again!
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