1. Re: walk_dir issue
- Posted by "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de> Nov 25, 2004
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Pete Lomax wrote: > On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 21:41:38 +0100, Juergen Luethje > wrote: > >> -- as I wrote above -- then something happens, that Derek and I >> consider a bug. > Surely it is easier for your look_at routine to strip the *.txt you > passed to walk_dir than it is for walk_dir to attempt to strip it > automagically? > > In my limited experience with the windows API functions FindFirstFile > and FindNextFile, you have to tack a wildcard onto any path specified, > in other words the windows API is probably at least partially to blame > for this behaviour. It was not my intention to blame anyone or anything. I'm sorry if my previous post in this thread might have sounded like that. I just thought (and still think) that there is a bug concerning walk_dir(), and that now -- while we do alpha testing -- it might be the right moment to remind of it, so that it gets fixed pretty soon. Regards, Juergen