walk_dir: upper & mixed case problem in "equal" test
I'm trying to use walk_dir to find the path for a specified file, and I'm
having trouble getting my program to *recognize* when it's found the file,
because of difficulty with uppercase/lowercase as perceived & reported by
walk_dir, and then tested by "equal".
It seems that sometimes when a file is created, its filename is created in a
format which is read by walk_dir as ALL UPPERCASE, (such as all the
Euphoria files distributed by RDS), although they DON'T display that way on
all systems (ie, Win98) when shown in a directory listing (ie, they show as
all lowercase except for the first character); however, sometimes (perhaps
when the file is created on Win98 system or something?), the filename *as
reported by walk_dir* can be in a *mixture* of upper and lowercase, which is
like it IS displayed in a directory listing on the system.
So the upshot is, if a person goes to use the routine, and types in the file
name to find, if they don't type it in exactly the form it is returned by
walk_dir (all uppercase, all lowercase, or *mixture*), I can't get the
routine to recognize that it has found it.
I presume I could make some routine to take each file name as reported by
walk_dir and create *every* possible combination of upper/lower case for
every character in it, to do the test against the target filename, but this
seems like it would make the walk_dir take a LOT longer to do.
Can anyone suggest a better approach?
Thanks,
Dan Moyer
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