On Dec 13, 2006, at 5:50 PM, Norman Palardy wrote:
On Dec 13, 2006, at 3:33 PM, Ed Harris wrote:
As part of the solution for the CreateTextFile problem I posted a
couple of
days ago, I need an easy way to get a list of files in a folder
that match a
template, e.g., "temp????.html" where the ? is any single
character. It
needs to work on both Mac OS X and Windows.
There isn't
What is the easiest way to do this? I can't figure it out from
the RB
documentation.
try and create a file and if it already exists move on to another
"unique" name
something like
dim counter as integer
dim f as folderItem
counter = 0
do
if counter < 1 then
f = TemporaryFolder.Child("temp.html")
else
f = TemporaryFolder.Child("temp" + format(counter,"#") +
".html")
end if
counter = counter + 1
loop until f.Exists = false
Actually, it's even faster to do something like
if TemporaryFolder <> nil then
return TemporaryFolder.Child("temp" + Format(10000000000*Rnd, "#")
+ ".html"
else
return nil
end if
Assuming TemporaryFolder <> nil, a few iterations can push the
probability of failure below that of a hardware error.
Charles Yeomans
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