Sarah Reichelt wrote:
On 8/25/06, Sarah Reichelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all,
The "answer file" command usually gets me thoroughly confused, but
this time, I'm not sure it is able to do what I want.
I want to allow the user to select a text file, but it has to be a
text file with a name like "Slot45.txt". The number will vary, but it
has to start with "Slot" and have the ".txt".
Is this possible? I can get it to limit to text files, but is it
possible to limit the available files to only text files which start
with "Slot"?
Thanks for the replies, Sean & Rob. I need to keep the files as text
files so they can be imported into a spreadsheet later, so a custom
file type is not an option.
I guess I'll build my own file selector. In the meantime I've gone the
lazy way and allowed selection of any text file, with a file name
check after selection to catch any non-matching files. Since it's only
for in-house use (& mainly by me), this will be OK for now.
Thanks,
Sarah
Just a thought,
If your files are tab/return delimited, it might be useful to give them
a .tsv suffix. This is a more correct suffix for such files than .txt
anyway. Since almost nobody actually does this, it would amount, in
practice, to a custom file type suffix. In my experience, Microsoft
spreadsheets understand this type. OpenOffice however does not, it opens
them in Write (doh). So you should test with your preferred spreadsheet.
Martin Baxter
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