Re: Problem creating directories in TFile

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, James Jackson wrote:

> I have a TFile, within which I create a directory (e.g. with file-
> >mkdir("Dir1")). If, from another section of my code, and given a pointer to
> the file object, I run the following code:
>
> file->cd();
> file->cd("Dir1");
> file->mkdir("Dir2");
> file->cd("Dir2");
>
> The result is that Dir2 is created under the file 'root' directory, and not as
> a subdirectory of Dir1. This is with version 5.13.04e.

Dear James,
what you probably want to do is

file->cd("Dir1");
gDirectory->mkdir("Dir2");
file->cd("Dir1/Dir2");

Cheers

        Gero

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