As Steven mentioned, starting the program from the directory where the
files reside allows you to include the file using its filename without the
full path. If that is easy for you, it is probably best. An alternative
is to do it with code. Let me know if you need that.
On Monday, August 22, 2016 at 5:06:33 PM UTC-4, Pigskin Ablanket wrote:
>
> No problem. If you get a chance - great
>
> On Saturday, August 20, 2016 at 12:13:40 PM UTC-4, Jeffrey Sarnoff wrote:
>>
>> There is a way -- after the weekend.
>>
>> On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 8:04:58 PM UTC-4, Pigskin Ablanket wrote:
>>>
>>> I probably dont want to change the input file names more than once
>>> although I would be updating its data daily - and I think I know how to do
>>> that (change the name of the file itself as well as in the code). The
>>> output file though - I might want to change more regularly,
>>>
>>> Also - when I ran it - a few things were deprecated - does that just
>>> mean outdated? Does updating with the new term change the file - or just
>>> the underlying solving? Not sure if you can know that or not.
>>>
>>> I was just looking for a way yo shortcut that long as heck include
>>> string I have now. Cause I will run that daily and lord knows I mistyped
>>> it like 10 times.
>>>
>>> On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 7:28:40 PM UTC-4, Jeffrey Sarnoff wrote:
>>>>
>>>> You are most welcome.
>>>>
>>>> What do you want to change, if anything, from day to day, for example:
>>>> one or both input file names, the output file name, reuse some/all file
>>>> names while changing the data inside?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 7:01:54 PM UTC-4, Pigskin Ablanket wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> IT Works!!!!!!!! Thank you so much. Found my error in the code.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am curious if there is a way to shortcut the command as I would want
>>>>> to run this daily to test and it seems like a lot to type correctly.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the time today
>>>>>
>>>>> On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 6:26:34 PM UTC-4, Jeffrey Sarnoff wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Look correct?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I will answer that after you try running it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 6:19:33 PM UTC-4, Pigskin Ablanket
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks for providing me so much help today - much appreciated.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I copied the properties right here for folder Julia which is where
>>>>>>> the code file is located:
>>>>>>> C:\Users\JHerron\Documents\Documents\Personal\DFS\NHL
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Interesting that it didnt bring it over as My_Documents.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Based on this, I would believe the command needs to be:
>>>>>>> include("C:\\Users\\JHerron\\Documents\\Documents\\
>>>>>>> Personal\\DFS\\NHL\\Julia\\code_for_Github.jl")
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Look correct?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I made the changes to the paths in the file as well....
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "C:\\Users\\JHerron\\Documents\\Documents\\Personal\\DFS\\NHL\\Julia\\example_skaters.csv"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 6:01:50 PM UTC-4, Jeffrey Sarnoff
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> two things,
>>>>>>>> you wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> include("C:\\Users\\JHerron\\My_Documents\\My_Documents/Personal\\DFS/NHL\\Julia/code_for_Github.jl")
>>>>>>>> and I wonder, do you mean !
>>>>>>>> !
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> include("C:\\Users\\JHerron\\My_Documents\\My_Documents_Personal\\DFS\\NHL\\Julia\\code_for_Github.jl")
>>>>>>>> or
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> include("C:\\Users\\JHerron\\My_Documents\\My_Documents_Personal\\DFS_NHL\\Julia\\code_for_Github.jl")
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> when you go to the directory where you see the file:
>>>>>>>> code_for_Github.jl and you put the mouse on that file and right-click
>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>> see the popup menu and select the last thing "properties" there is
>>>>>>>> something that says Location,if does it not exactly match:
>>>>>>>> C:/Users/JHerron/My_Documents/My_Documents/Personal/DFS/NHL/Julia
>>>>>>>> then you have miscopied it, if it looks like this
>>>>>>>> C:/Users/JHerron/My_Documents/My_Documents_Personal/DFS_NHL/Julia
>>>>>>>> then you should be using (and fix the paths in the
>>>>>>>> code_for_Github.jl file, too)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> include("C:\\Users\\JHerron\\My_Documents\\My_Documents_Personal\\DFS_NHL\\Julia\\code_for_Github.jl")
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 5:12:41 PM UTC-4, Pigskin Ablanket
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Sadly, I get the following response from
>>>>>>>>> include("C:\\Users\\JHerron\\My_Documents\\My_Documents/Personal\\DFS/NHL\\Julia/code_for_Github.jl")
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> *ERROR: could not copen file
>>>>>>>>> C:\Users\JHerron\My_Documents\My_Documents\Personal\DFS\NHL\Julia\code_for_github.jl*
>>>>>>>>> *in include at boot.jl:261*
>>>>>>>>> *in include_from_node1 at loading.jl:320*
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 4:49:16 PM UTC-4, Jeffrey Sarnoff
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> the "i" in include should be lower case
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Pigskin Ablanket <
>>>>>>>>>> pigskin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I tried Include("C:Users\\JHerron\\My_Documents\\My_Documents/
>>>>>>>>>>> Personal\\DFS/NHL\\Julia/code_for_Github.jl")
>>>>>>>>>>> (I hope that was what you meant to do).
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I got: *ERROR: UndefVarError: Include not defined*
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 1:58:30 PM UTC-4, Steven G.
>>>>>>>>>>> Johnson wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 1:47:59 PM UTC-4, Pigskin
>>>>>>>>>>>> Ablanket wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sorry if Im not following - I tried:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Include("C:\Users\JHerron\My_Documents\My_Documents/
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Personal\DFS/NHL\Julia/code_for_Github.jl") aas shown below
>>>>>>>>>>>>> and got *ERROR: syntax: invalid escape sequence*
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Backslashes have to be escsped in strings, like in many
>>>>>>>>>>>> computer languages: change \ to \\ in the string.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> However, usually it is better to just run Julia from within the
>>>>>>>>>>>> path that you want rather than having to type absolute paths all
>>>>>>>>>>>> of the
>>>>>>>>>>>> time in the REPL.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> (In the long run, you usually do large-scale code development
>>>>>>>>>>>> in a module in the standard module search path, so you can just
>>>>>>>>>>>> type "using
>>>>>>>>>>>> Foo".)
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> (If you call include("foo.jl") from another file bar.jl, the
>>>>>>>>>>>> path of foo.jl is automatically relative to the path of bar.jl, so
>>>>>>>>>>>> again
>>>>>>>>>>>> you neither need nor want absolute paths.)
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> For interactive code development where I need more than a few
>>>>>>>>>>>> lines of code, I usually use a Jupyter notebook (google "IJulia").
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
