The purpose of this routine is to allow the user append text to the end of the root name of an absolute file name. The text is appended to the end of the root name (see `cgRootName`) and before the final file extension.
Utilities
The appended filename.
filename: in, required, type=string This file name the text is to be to be appended to. It may be a relative or absolute path name to a file. thetext: in, required, type=string The text to append to the end of the file root name.
Append "processed" to a filename:: IDL> thePath = "C:\rsi\idl7.8\lib\jester.img" IDL> outFileName = cgAppendToFilename(thePath, '_processed') IDL> Print, outFileName C:\rsi\idl7.8\lib\jester_processed.img
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Change History:: Written by: David W. Fanning, 19 September 2012.
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