OpenEuphoria

Re: how find if/where a file is

• Posted by Dan B Moyer <DANMOYER at PRODIGY.NET> Sep 07, 2000
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Jeeze!

It was right there under "file & device IO" where one might expect it,
instead of under "operating system" where I kept looking!  Sigh.  I shoulda
known I was doing something wrong when I didn't ever see "dir" there.

Thanks :)

Dan
still chagrined

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Nelson" <MichaelANelson at WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 6:28 AM
Subject: Re: how find if/where a file is


> Dan,
>
> The function you are looking for is "walk_dir()"
>
> -- Mike Nelson
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan B Moyer" <DANMOYER at PRODIGY.NET>
> To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 5:46 AM
> Subject: how find if/where a file is
>
>
> > Can anyone suggest how I might go about programmatically finding if a
file
> > is present and if so where it is?  It should (almost certainly) be under
> > Euphoria, and I have an example which showed me:
> >
> > -- FIND WHERE EUPHORIA STUFF IS ON DRIVE:
> > object EuDir    -- EUDIR environment variable
> > EuDir = getenv("EUDIR")
> >
> > but I don't know how to then search for all the subdirectories for the
> file;
> > I thought I had seen something that might relate, more than one
reference
> to
> > a "dirwalk" here, but I searched the archives and manuals & couldn't
find
> > it.
> >
> > Dan Moyer