It's an app where files and folders are selected as part of a backup
process. Folders can be selected, in which case the entire folder
contents would be used. In the case of individual files (or just a few)
selected in any given folder, only info for those specific files are
required. The app should be capable of running on a basic (possibly
ancient) machine, so any speed improvements are a bonus.
I appreciate all the responses - they are helpful and useful, but you
seem a bit over protective of rev for some bizarre reason - I can't
think why anyone would argue against having a concise one line function
call for something this basic.
Looking at how this thread turned out from a question where the answer
appears to be 'No' now makes me think that the detailed files isn't so
long winded after all :-)
This link may help you to relax a bit ;-)
http://www.emanator.demon.co.uk/bigclive/tickle.htm
Have fun,
JC
Richard Gaskin wrote:
John Craig wrote:
Maybe I should have said 'another lengthy function call per line'...
I already use a cached file list, but if I hit a folder with
thousands of files in it and only need the size of 1 file in that
particular folder, it seems like wasted CPU time to pull the entire
folder contents.
Maybe, and maybe not. I thought I'd read a recent post from you where
you'd said you needed this info for thousands of files across multiple
directories, no?
If so, while the overhead of the function call is modest for a single
file (and might be made faster with your Bugzilla request for a
one-liner -- what's that BZ #?), if you need to do this for every file
in a directory then obtaining all of that info in one call would seem
rather ideal, yes?
Can you tell us a bit more about this circumstance in which you need
to obtain this information for thousands of file in a directory, but
not all at once, and in a context in which the roughly quarter of a
millisecond even my long version takes would be prohibitive?
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