Question

I’m wondering if there is some way to get the scripts file name programatically and print it to the console, eg in php it’s SCRIPT_NAME in batch it’s %0 in some other languages it’s arg[0]

without writing some complex routines is this possible in scala or is it so limited?

Answer 1

If you’re executing a scala script using scala <scriptname> you can get the name as follows:

//Filename: temp.scala
println("Hello there")  //valid statment
val name=System.getProperty("sun.java.command").split(" ")(1)
println("name: " + name)

Gives me the output:

C:\Users\plastygrove\Desktop\tmp>scala temp.scala
Hello there
name: temp.scala

EDIT: Forgot to mention, code is from this post: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/ScriptName#Java as pointed to in this post: How do I get the current script or class name in Scala?