Classic ASP virtual includes - asp-classic

Lets suppose I have the following file structure, the top 4 of which are virtual dirs:
1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8
Is it possible, from a file in directory 8, to include a file in directory 4, using something like the following?
<!-- #include virtual="/4/5/6/a.asp" -->
Note that I don't have 8 levels of directories - I actually only have 3 in the format /ab/abCore/includes.asp, /ab/ab123/default.asp, /ab/ab123/ajax/ab.asp, /ab/ab123/actions/create.asp (may have more levels shortly) and would like to use the same includes in both default.asp and create.asp. The only way I can find is to use 'file' with '../' one or more times. ab is a virtual directory but abCore and ab123 are not. I need to reference virtual dir 'ab' from any files within any directories within this directory. I am just using 8 in my example merely to explain my situation better. Note that I have full control over IIS, defining which directories are virtual and so on.
If this is not very clear then please say (rather than downvoting) and I will try to rephrase.

Yes it can be done. Suppose there is a file test1.asp in f1 folder and you want to include it in a file which is in the path f1/f2/f3. Simply you need to write the code like
<!--#include file = "..\..\test1.asp"-->
So here is your answer. Your code should be like
<!--#include file = "..\..\..\..\a.asp"-->

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File Should Exist is not recognizing filepath

I'm using the File Should Exist keyword to check for an existing file in a List.
This is the high-level format:
Variables:
#{Files} /Desktop/Other/scooby.txt
... /Desktop/DummyFiles/daffy.txt
... %{CURDIR}/mickey.txt
Test Case:
Given File Should Exist ${Files[0]}
[...]
Output:
Setup failed:
Path '/Desktop/Other/scooby.txt' does not exist.
I'm not sure why this happens. The file name and filepath are correct. I also tried a bunch of different combinations (I copied the file over to the subdirectory this script is running from but that also doesn't work). I tried making the filepath a scalar variable instead of a List/array. Adding ".." in front of the file path doesn't work either. I've looked into "Glob pattern" but I don't think that's the issue either.
Always use absolute paths if in doubt. For example - /Desktop/Other/scooby.txt Does not point to any "meaningful" path even on windows because its lacking the the drive. On windows, using C:/Users/$yourlocalusername/Desktop/Other/scooby.txt might be working (replace $yourlocalusername with correct value)
Relying on relative paths (like in your example, 2 first ones are relative even thought you start with /, because in windows you still have a drive at the start) - you will need to ensure that working directory is set to a specific directory before you run your suite. Now, if you run your suite via IDE, current working directory might not be what you expect it to be so before you are familiar with how relative & absolute paths work - prefer to use absolute paths. See https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001708.htm - maybe that will clear out your issue.
You can either use ${CURDIR} or do not start the relative path with '/'.
I guess when starting with '/' , RF does not take this as relative path input and try to map the address from root directory i.e. C:
In below example, I have demonstrated both the approach, and it works fine for me.
*** Settings ***
Library OperatingSystem
Documentation Demonstrating File Exist keywords
*** Variables ***
#{Files} Data/VariableData/ConditionalFlows.robot
... Data/VariableData/testdata.robot
#{Files2} ${CURDIR}/Data/VariableData/ConditionalFlows.robot
... ${CURDIR}/Data/VariableData/testdata.robot
*** Test Cases ***
TS002-Check For File Existence
[Documentation] File exists
${File} File Should Exist ${Files}[0]
${File} File Should Exist ${Files2}[0]

Avoid rendering of specific .md files from blogdown::serve_site()

I have a file located at
content/post/data_for_posts/my_file.md
I have it there because it's quite easy to do htmltools::includeMarkdown("data_for_posts/my_file.md") and recycle this file in different posts.
My problem is that when I serve_site() this creates a public/post/data_for_posts/index.html, which means, it gets posted to my website (as a January 1 of 0001). I guess I could change the date to year 10000, but I would rather handle it the way I handle the .Rmd and other files, as suggested here
I have tried to modify my config.toml but have not managed to solve the issue.
ignoreFiles = ["\\.Rmd$", "\\.Rmarkdown$", "_files$", "_cache$", "content/post/data_for_posts/my_file.md"]
Here are a couple techniques that I use to do this:
Rename data_for_posts/my_file.md so it uses a file extension that hugo does not interpret as a known markup language, for example change .md to .markd or mdn.[*]
Rename data_for_posts/my_file.md so it includes a string that you will never use in a real content file, for example data_for_posts-UNPUBLISHED/my_file.md. Then add that string (UNPUBLISHED or whatever) to your config ignoreFiles list.[**]
[*] In the content/ directory, a file with one of the following file extensions will be interpreted by hugo as containing a known markup language: .ad, .adoc, .asciidoc, .htm, .html, .markdown, .md, .mdown, .mmark, .pdc, .pandoc, .org, or .rst (this is an excerpt of something I wrote).
[**] The strings listed in ignoreFiles seem to be case sensitive so I like to use all-upper-case characters in my ignored file names (because I never use upper-case chars in real content file names). Also note that there is no need to specify the path and my experience is that path delimiters (/ or \) cause problems.

How to change to the next above directory

I really would like to know how to change directory to the next file, using 2 dots (/..).
I can go back to previous directory but how to do something like that to go to the next directory WITHOUT THE NAME OF THE FILE PLEASE!
I know it is possbile with the name of the folder but my answer is different, please let me know.
What O.S are you using? In linux ubuntu/Debian distributions (and probably in windows, not sure), you can enter the first child directory by simply typingcd */, this will change your current directory to the first child directory available in alphabetical order, example:
-/home
-alan
-desktop
-music
-alex
-documents
-pictures
-lisa
Assuming your in /home, if you write cd */ in the terminal you will be in /home/alan, because -alan is the first folder/directory available.

what is the difference between ./ and / (root and current directory)?

whats is the difference between these two?
Let say file a and b sits in the same folder and we want to include b in file a.
Isn't ./b and /b the same thing? which one should I use?
./b and /b are the same thing if and only if your current working directory is /. You should use the former(a).
By way of further clarification, let's say your current working directory is /my_code_dir and you have code of the form:
#include "./b.h"
#include "/b.h"
Putting aside the whole issue of C inclusions being implementation-defined, the former will use /my_code_dir/b.h and the latter will use /b.h.
(a) Assuming they are your only two choices, of course. In any decent-sized development environment, you probably should be avoiding these "breadcrumb"-style paths (like ../../../include/xyzzy/plugh.h) and instead rely on the your environment setting up include paths for you (so you can just use xyzzy/plugh.h). That way, things can move around freely without having to go and change large swathes of code.

Is there a way to avoid recursive make with nobase?

I've got the following directory structure:
Makefile.am
src/
mymod/
mod.cc
submod/
submod.cc
inc/
Makefile.am
mymod/
mod.hh
submod/
submod.hh
Using autotools, I'd like to distribute both a library made from src and the headers in inc. The top level Makefile.am looks something like
lib_LTLIBRARIES = mylib.la
mylib_la_SOURCES=./mymod/mod.cc\
./mymod/submod/submod.cc
SUBDIRS=inc
Then inc/Makefile.am has
mymod_includedir=$(includedir)
nobase_mymod_include_HEADERS=mymod/mod.hh\
mymod/submod/submod.hh
This works OK. I end up with whatever library stuff, and my headers get installed appropriately. However, I'd like to eliminate the recursion involved in the Makefile. The problem is that if I move the lines in inc/Makefile.am to the root directory, then I have to update the paths as follows:
mymod_includedir=$(includedir)
nobase_mymod_include_HEADERS=inc/mymod/mod.hh\
inc/mymod/submod/submod.hh
This results in my headers getting dumped as $PREFIX/include/inc/mymod/mod.hh and not $PREFIX/include/mymod/mod.hh like I want. I know I
could do something like
mymodincludedir=$(includedir)/mymod
mymod_HEADERS=inc/mymod/mod.hh
mysubmodincludedir=$(includedir)/mymod/submod
mysubmod_HEADERS=inc/mymod/submod/submod.hh
but that's pretty painful, because there's a lot of subdirectories, and more subdirectories within the subdirectories (we're distributing a 3rd party's code that our own headers need). What I'd like to be able to do is either tell automake to just copy the directories in /inc to $(includepath) along with every subdirectory it encounters within, or tell it to only strip part of the path from the header files I'm listing. Is this possible?
I think the closest you can find is Karel Zak's Makemodule.am approach for which nobase_ would work as you need.

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