modulepath

Returns path of a module.

Syntax

• p = modulepath(module_short_name)

• p = modulepath(module_short_name, option)

Input argument

• module_short_name or 'nelson' - a string: short module's name. module must exist in nelson session.

• option - a string: 'etc', 'bin', 'root', 'builtin', 'tests'.

Output argument

• p - a string: path or subpath of the module.

Description

modulepath is an helper's function to return module root path or a subdirectory.

modulepath('nelson') is equivalent to modulepath('nelson', 'root')

modulepath('nelson', 'bin') return path of nelson's executables.

modulepath('nelson', 'builtin') returns path of nelson's dynamic libraries.

Example

modulepath('core')
modulepath('core', 'root')
modulepath('core', 'etc')
modulepath('core', 'bin')
modulepath('core', 'builtin')
modulepath('core', 'tests')
modulepath('nelson', 'root')
modulepath('nelson', 'bin')
modulepath('nelson', 'builtin')

See also

requiremodule, getmodules.

History

Version	Description
1.0.0	initial version

Author

Allan CORNET