Am Samstag, 2. September 2006 05:29 schrieb Cesar Romero:
> > I have had some headaches while using FindFirst function to search for
> > files in a folder.
> > I would share some gained knowledge with the people on this list.
> >
> > Everybody knows about file attributes (archive, system, hidden, read
> > only).
> > If someone use FindFirst('*.*', faAnyFile, SearchRec) it assumes that
> > faAnyFile is enough to get every file from the directory.
> > No, it is not. If a file has none of the attributes set, the faAnyFile
> > will not include that file in the search.
> > Those files, without any of the mentioned attributes set, they have
> > attribute Normal, and this attribute is not defined as faNormal
> > anywhere in RTL ( see
> > http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/dos/fileattributes.html ).
> > If one would like to get all the files from a folder by using
> > FindFirst and FindNext, then he should use:
> > FindFirst('*.*', faAnyFile or $00000080, SearchRec);
Perhaps you should report this to FPC... so if it's a bug it can be solved.
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