converting vpath into filename

srosewall

Hi,

Does anyone have a favourite way of taking a vpath and converting it to a filename format?

I'd like to take the branch information available to a workflow , strip out some useful info and convert it into a part of a filename so I can pick up a branch based configuration file.

I'm hoping that there's a neat Perl module (hopefully from IWOV) that I can tap into. If not then I'll do some Perl'ing of my own.

Cheers
Stuart Rosewall

Adam Stoller

I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to accomplish here - can you provide an example?

A vpath is generally a filesystem path without the mount point (Y:, /iwmnt, /.iwmnt) preceding it.

An area-relative vpath is the filesystem path from the current directory (.) but without the dot (e.g. [/default/main/www/WORKAREA/waname]/htdocs/something/foo.html)

The branch name can be retrieved from a full vpath using fairly simple regular expressions:

$fullvpath = "/default/main/www/WORKAREA/waname/htdocs/something/foo.html";
if ($fullvpath =~ m%^/default/.*/([^/]+)/(STAGING|EDITION|WORKAREA)/.*%){
$branch = $1;
}

I'm not sure if this answers your question - so as I said, if you provide an example of what you're starting with and what you want to end with - it will be easy for someone to assist you.

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)