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Last modified: December 2006

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AHELP for CIAO 3.4 ds9_get_file Context: ds9

Synopsis

Retrieve name of file being displayed

Syntax

String_Type ds9_get_file()
String_Type ds9_get_file( handle )

Description

Returns the name of the file being displayed within the current DS9 frame, which may include a directory path if such was specified to DS9 on input.

NOTES

An empty string will be returned if DS9 is not running, has no current frame, or is not displaying a file in the current frame (e.g. because it was sent the data via ds9_put_array()).

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