Merge pull request #483 from awvwgk/working-directory

Allow fpm to change the working directory

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/fpm_filesystem.f90 b/src/fpm_filesystem.f90
index 28c3b33..c9c97dd 100644
--- a/src/fpm_filesystem.f90
+++ b/src/fpm_filesystem.f90
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ use,intrinsic :: iso_fortran_env, only : stdin=>input_unit, stdout=>output_unit,
     private
     public :: basename, canon_path, dirname, is_dir, join_path, number_of_rows, read_lines, list_files, env_variable, &
             mkdir, exists, get_temp_filename, windows_path, unix_path, getline, delete_file, to_fortran_name
-    public :: fileopen, fileclose, filewrite, warnwrite
+    public :: fileopen, fileclose, filewrite, warnwrite, parent_dir
 
     integer, parameter :: LINE_BUFFER_LEN = 1000
 
@@ -184,6 +184,15 @@ function dirname(path) result (dir)
 
 end function dirname
 
+!> Extract dirname from path
+function parent_dir(path) result (dir)
+    character(*), intent(in) :: path
+    character(:), allocatable :: dir
+
+    dir = path(1:scan(path,'/\',back=.true.)-1)
+
+end function parent_dir
+
 
 !> test if a name matches an existing directory path
 logical function is_dir(dir)