OpenEuphoria

2. Re: Dir Problem

• Posted by Brian Broker <bkb at cnw.com> May 20, 2004
• 538 views

While it is interesting that your program doesn't crash with ex.exe, it
does, indeed, crash with exw.exe.  However I've found that the following 
does work fine with exw.exe:

include file.e

? dir("data")

But I did notice some minor differences between results using exwc.exe:
{
  {
    {46},
    {100},
    0,
    2004,
    5,
    20,
    2,
    59,
    32
  },
  {
    {46,46},
    {100},
    0,
    2004,
    5,
    20,
    2,
    59,
    32
  },
  {
    {115,104,105,116,46,116,120,116},
    {97},
    16,
    2004,
    5,
    20,
    2,
    59,
    14
  }
}

and ex.exe:
{
  {
    {46},
    {100},
    0,
    2004,
    5,
    20,
    2,
    58,
    24
  },
  {
    {46,46},
    {100},
    0,
    2004,
    5,
    20,
    2,
    58,
    24
  },
  {
    {83,72,73,84,46,84,88,84},
    {97},
    16,
    2004,
    5,
    20,
    2,
    59,
    14
  }
}

-- Brian

4. Re: Dir Problem

• Posted by irv mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> May 21, 2004
• 568 views

unknown wrote:

> ? dir("data\\*.")
> I see that you used a wildcard '*', but you did not include "wildcard.e"  

No need to include wildcard.e, any more than you need to when you are 
using the DOS command DIR *.*
That expansion is done by the operating system, not Euphoria.

> Also, the way you have it, it will look for data in the current Working 
> Directory.  to remedy this, you should say 
> dir("..\\data\\*.*")
> OR
> dir(".\\data\\*.*")

These two are different. The two dots return the parent directory, one 
dot returns the current directory.

Irv

6. Re: Dir Problem

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> May 21, 2004
• 551 views

Daniel Kluss wrote:
> I get the following problem from dir in file.e on windows xp home
> the program is a two liner
> the folder "data" does not exist
> Any comments whole be greatly appriciated
> Daniel
> ------------dir.exw
> include file.e
> 
> ? dir("data\\*.")
> --------------------error screen
> c:\euphoria\include\file.e:101 in function dir()
> A machine-level exception occurred during execution of this statement

OK, thanks for reporting it.
I've managed to reproduce the bug on my machine.
I'll fix it for the next release.

In any case, perhaps you meant to say:

    ? dir("data\\*.*")

That seems to work.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com