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File Manipulation

Introduction

Sometimes you gotta interact with the file system and when you do things can get messy. File systems are dependent upon the operating system and since operating systems will handle things in different ways it can be hard to write code that will work on all platforms. Luckily PLT Scheme provides some functions to do platform independent manipulation of directory and file paths.

Creating a Platform Independent Path

Problem

You want to create a path to a file or directory in a platform independent way.

Creating directories

Problem

You want to create a directory in a platform independent way. The directory is several levels deep and you wish to create intermediate directories as necessary.

Solution

Use the make-directory* procedure in the file.ss library

(require (lib "file.ss"))

(make-directory* "dir1" "dir2" "dir3")

Discussion

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