Sorry - Im not a programmer, just want to use the tool to do some
comparative work and potential modification for other uses. Your comments
are probably helpful...I just dont understand them. I agree that I want
something shorter so I dont have to type as much - but I still cant quite
get it to execute yet.
On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 1:58:30 PM UTC-4, Steven G. Johnson wrote:
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> On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 1:47:59 PM UTC-4, Pigskin Ablanket wrote:
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>> Sorry if Im not following - I tried:
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>> Include("C:\Users\JHerron\My_Documents\My_Documents/
>> Personal\DFS/NHL\Julia/code_for_Github.jl") aas shown below and got *ERROR:
>> syntax: invalid escape sequence*
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> Backslashes have to be escsped in strings, like in many computer
> languages: change \ to \\ in the string.
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> However, usually it is better to just run Julia from within the path that
> you want rather than having to type absolute paths all of the time in the
> REPL.
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> (In the long run, you usually do large-scale code development in a module
> in the standard module search path, so you can just type "using Foo".)
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> (If you call include("foo.jl") from another file bar.jl, the path of
> foo.jl is automatically relative to the path of bar.jl, so again you
> neither need nor want absolute paths.)
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> For interactive code development where I need more than a few lines of
> code, I usually use a Jupyter notebook (google "IJulia").
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