Hi there, aspiring programmer and total Nim-Noob is asking for your wisdom. In
order to dive deeper in to the adventure that programming is I decided to have
a go on Nim. Thought it would be a good idea to re implement s.the. I already
did in Bash, just to have the logic out of the way. Now this project involves
indexing large parts of / and ~ but I want to leave out logs, cashes and some
other stuff.
Given following dir-structure,
.__ file_a
|
|__folder_1
| |__file_1.a
| |__file_1.b
|
|__folder_2
|__file_2.a
|__file_2.b
Run
I tried the following:
import os, re
for file in walkDirRec ".":
if file.match (re"\S*folder_1\S*"):
echo "NO!"
continue
echo file
Run
this would output:
./file_a
NO!
NO!
./folder_2/file_2.a
./folder_2/file_2.b
Run
Now I can achieve my goal with that and e.g. write only the paths I want to a
file or something. But there are two things bugging me about this: First: In
Bash, I used find to pipe the paths into a file. With the prune flag I could
stop find from descending into those directories completely and therefore save
quite a bit of time. The above method would iterate over every single file
anyway. Second: I'd prefer to have an array where the folders to be excluded
are stored. As strings maybe? (I played a bit with Python and their os.walk can
do that). But my attempts to get this working based on string comparison were
futile, to say the least.
Now I know that as a newcomer to programming I might very well be of on a
completely wrong track and I have to tackle things in another way to begin
with. But it somehow stumps me, that I was able to figure this out in two other
languages and am so lost here in Nim. I guess the easy to pick up part is more
in the syntactic part than the approach?
Anyway, any little bit of guidance, regardless of direction, would be much
appreciated. Greetings, Markus
