Richard,
> At 03:59 PM 9/25/2005, Mark Schaffer wrote:
>>Using -findfile- to get the path to the ado, opening the ado with -file-,
>>and then messing about with file i/o is unappealing, though I suppose it
>>could be made to work. Is there anything easier?
>>
>>--Mark
>
> One additional complication is that there is nothing that says an ado
> file has to use the same version number throughout, e.g. different
> subroutines could use different version numbers. Would you need to
> track all of them, the highest one, the lowest one, or what?
What I have in mind is pretty straightforward in principle. Many ados
have a few lines at the top that start with the characters "*!". I would
want to grab the line that has "*!" followed by "version". E.g., ivreg
has at the top
*! version 5.1.3 21jul2004
I would take that line, tokenize it, and if the second token is "version",
the third token would be the version number, namely "5.1.3".
I suppose this could be done with -findfile-, then -file open- and -file
read-, but it's a hassle, esp. dealing with pathnames and different
operating systems, \ vs. /, and all that.
--Mark
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