On 04/18/2011 08:39 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, Rogan Creswick wrote: > >> - The rename is only applied to one file at a time, regardless of how >> it may act as a batch job, so there is no guarantee that some >> intermediate state of your files won't result in conflicts. > Since each file name is unique, there should not be an intermediate state.
Following this thread this morning, two thoughts occur: 1) Add some error checking code to test for the "new" file name, to see if it already exists, before making the change. 2) Every program I recall using that involves changing a file name already does this, which means somebody already wrote this code. Is there a function somewhere that could be called? For example, store the old file name in a variable, remove the unwanted characters, then submit that variable to the function that looks to see if the name is already in use. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
