I am looking forward to the meeting on the 11th. It is simple tasks
of the following sort which I hope the presentation is going to teach
me how best to approach:
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SITUATION: A directory "datafiles/" contains files named "red.doc",
"green.dat", "yellow.tex", "blue.txt", etc.
NEED: Open each file in the directory, and append to the end of each
file the file name, so that file "red.doc" reads:
<existing text, if any>
red.doc
file "yellow.tex" reads:
<existing text>
yellow.tex
and so forth.
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Of course, the next step is recursion into sub-directories. From my
reading I think I see how to handle recursion, but obtaining the
filename and stepping through a directory is the immediate hurdle.
It seems to me that the books and tutorials typically do not spend
enough time explaining the fundamental concepts.
RLH
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