VMS Help Lexicals, F$PARSE  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

    Parses a file specification and returns either the expanded file
    specification or the particular file specification field that you
    request.

    Format

      F$PARSE(filespec [,default-spec] [,related-spec] [,field]

             [,parse-type])

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