For this particular purpose, you want `define-runtime-path`: https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/Filesystem.html#%28part._runtime-path%29
-Philip On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 9:38 PM Peter W A Wood <peterwaw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a short racket program/script that reads a file from the directory > in which it is stored. The directory structure is something like this: > > a/ > b/ > c/ > my-racket.rkt > my-data-file.txt > > I want to be able to run the program from the command line no matter what > is the current working directory. E.G.: > > a> racket b/c/my-racket.rkt > a/b> racket c/my-racket.rkt > a/b/c> racket my-racket.rkt > > In order to do so, I need to provide the correct path to my-data-file.txt > depending on from where the script was launched. I haven’t learnt about > Racket modules yet so I resorted to searching Stack Overflow. I found a > code snippet that I used which worked: > > (define script-dir (path-only (resolved-module-path-name > (variable-reference->resolved-module-path > (#%variable-reference))))) > > Is this the best way to ascertain the directory of the “current module”? > > Thanks in advance > > Peter > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/92DACE01-60C8-445A-A07E-A4E6A6F5F684%40gmail.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CAH3z3ga%2B4Lhvg8%3DitgW_aLZ%2B-RbdN%2BAZuPPPeYukD3qRYuPiBw%40mail.gmail.com.
