Opendir

[Ken Cole]

Thanks Mark

From the online manual opendir can take 1,2 or no parameters. Hard to know
what the value in field 1 is in the supplied example.

Does it open the current directory?

Can I use it to traverse directories in the current directory?

Ken


On Thu, 31 May 2018 at 1:06 pm, Fairlight via Filepro-list <
filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:

> It works with any directory, AFAIK.
>
> 4.8  NEXTDIR            Returns system directory info.  Used with OPENDIR
>
>       Syntax:
>
>             XX = NextDir()
>
>       Return Value - System directory information as follows:
>
>             filename extension size date time fullname
>                14       10      14    8    6     25
>
>       Notes: A single space is returned between each portion of the string.
>              Filenames, extensions, and fullname are left justified. Size
>              is right justified w/commas. The date and time right
> justified.
>              NextDir() can be executed more than once to build a list of
>              files for sub-directory structures.
>
>       Example:
>
>         @wlf1  If: 1 gt ""             ' check field 1 gt ""
>              Then: n = OPENDIR(1)      ' n = the number of dir entries
>         ad2c   If: c lt n              ' c (counter) LT number of dir
> entries
>              Then: c(4,.0)=c+"1"       ' add "1" to the counter
>                If: not ad2c            ' no more directory entries
>              Then: n = CLOSEDIR();end  ' n = "0" if properly closed
>              Then: fn(25) = NEXTDIR()  ' return directories or filename &
> ext.
>              Then: show "@The directory or filename.ext is: "<fn;goto ad2c
>
>
> Don't even start me on the artificially low length limitations.
>
> m->
>
>
> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 12:29:42PM +1000, Ken Cole via Filepro-list thus
> spoke:
> > Does opendir only work on the filePro directory?
> >
> > If not, how do you get it to return a list if all directories in the
> > current directory?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Ken
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