New topic: Finding files using wildcards?
<http://forums.realsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?t=47433> Page 1 of 1 [ 2 posts ] Previous topic | Next topic Author Message jjfcpa Post subject: Finding files using wildcards?Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 3:49 pm Joined: Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:19 pm Posts: 420 Is there a way to get a list of files in a folder based on a file spec? For example, I want to retrieve all files from a network folder that match this specification: F:\DATAFOLDER\COMPANY.* I've been parsing the files using the folder.count routine that everyone talks about, but I've noticed that if there are a lot of files in a folder and the folder is on a network, it takes considerable more time to parse. Anyway to speed this up. I'm coming from Visual Foxpro and they had a very nice high level function that would return a file in a folder based on a file specification using wildcards. You could then use the same function again with a parameter and it would fine the next file with that matches the file spec. It has to be cross platform (Mac and Win). Top charonn0 Post subject: Re: Finding files using wildcards?Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 4:10 pm Joined: Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:08 am Posts: 1175 Location: San Francisco, CA, USA I don't know of any cross-platform techniques to do this, though there are platform-specific techniques that are quite fast. _________________ Boredom Software Top Display posts from previous: All posts1 day7 days2 weeks1 month3 months6 months1 year Sort by AuthorPost timeSubject AscendingDescending Page 1 of 1 [ 2 posts ] -- Over 1500 classes with 29000 functions in one REALbasic plug-in collection. The Monkeybread Software Realbasic Plugin v9.3. http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic/plugins.shtml [email protected]
