How to search for Files?

[jamonathin]

How would you go about searching for a specific file in a folder? Such as, if I were to save a bunch of randomly named files in one folder, how could i get the names of every one of those files? It's easy enough after that, but how would I be able to get the names of files in a folder? .

[Cervantes]

Check out the Dir module. I think that'll do it.

[AzureFire]

Dir.Get - will tell you the name, you might be able to do a loop with an if statement to find it. That's all I know.

[jamonathin]

Yeah Dir.Get was the right choice. You can simply put it into a flexible array and just store the values.

This is straight out of trusty F10 (edited of course), but I have one problem, well two. When the program runs, it displays whatever files there are in there plus the extension. The program does grab all files, but with some crap infront of it.

Problem: The first "filename" is '.'
and the second is '..'



Now I could just get around that in my program, by simply running a for loop and deleting any file that began with a ' . '
But if anyone knows how to stop that, from coming up, that'd be great, because then I'll throw that condition in as well, just to be safe .

code:

var streamNumber : int var fileName : flexible array 1 .. 0 of string streamNumber := Dir.Open ("Misc") assert streamNumber > 0 loop     new fileName, upper (fileName) + 1     fileName (upper (fileName)) := Dir.Get (streamNumber)     exit when fileName (upper (fileName)) = ""     put fileName (upper (fileName)) end loop Dir.Close (streamNumber)

[[Gandalf]]

Don't think so. If you've ever seen it in DOS or basically any old program, there will almost always be a . .. in the directory structure. I forget what the . means, but .. leads to the parent directory.

[Andy]

. is the current directory

[jamonathin]

Ok, as long as i know what it is, thanks.