pathconvert — pathnames convertion between posix and windows.
paths=pathconvert(paths [,flagtrail [,flagexpand [,type]]])
a string matrix giving a set of pathnames
boolean optional parameters. Its default value is TRUE.
boolean optional parameter. Its default value depends on the MSDOS variable.
a string 'u' or 'w'.
pathconvert can be used to convert a set of pathnames
(given by a string matrix paths) from windows native
filename to posix-style pathnames and back. The target style
is given by the optional string type which can be
'u' for Unix or 'w' for Windows. The default
style is set according to the value of MSDOS.
If MSDOS is TRUE (resp. FALSE ) then default type is 'w'
(resp. 'u').
Windows pathnames starting with name: are converted to
pathnames starting with /cygdrive/name/ using the cygwin
convention.
flagtrail is an optional boolean parameter. When its value
is TRUE (default value) a trailing separator ('\' or '/') is added
at the end of the path if it was missing. If flagtrail is
set to FALSE, the trailing separator is removed.
flagexpand is an optional boolean parameter. When its value
is TRUE leading strings like HOME, SCI or ~ are
expanded using environment variables.
pathconvert("SCI/modules/fileio\macros/foo.sci",%f,%f,"u")
pathconvert("SCI/modules/fileio\macros/foo.sci",%f,%f,"w")
pathconvert("SCI/modules/fileio/macros/foo.sci",%f,%t,"w")
pathconvert("HOME/modules/fileio/macros/foo.sci",%t,%t,"w")
pathconvert("c:/tmp",%f,%t,"u")
pathconvert("/cygdrive/c/tmp",%f,%f,"w")