OpenEuphoria

Re: Bug in dir() leads to Unicode and win_dir()

• Posted by ags <eu at 531pi.co.nz> Jul 16, 2005
• 475 views

Hi Greg

My Bad.  It seems win_dir("F:\\DATA\\MUSIC") literally means "give me the
directory entry "MUSIC" in F:\DATA

I guess the confusion on my part is that the standard Euphoria dir() was
giving me F:\DATA\MUSIC\* without me adding a trailing slash to the pathname.

This must be the operating system's default behaviour as dir() just calls
a machine function, like typing in DOS, "dir F:\data\music" will show the
contents of the music folder, not

07/06/2005  12:08 PM    <DIR>          music
               0 File(s)              0 bytes

Now when I do win_dir(pathname & "\\") it works, however replacing dir()
with win_dir() in walk_dir() doesn't recurse properly.

Do you think it's worth trying to find the cause of this and fix it in
win_dir() or to implement a new walk_win_dir() ?

IMHO, the standard Euphoria (/DOS) behaviour is nice, because if you want
the folder attributes for the folder you are looking at you need only 
examine the '.' entry?

Good job on this BTW :)


Gary

ags wrote:
> 
> Greg Haberek wrote:
> > 
> > While working on my Backup Utility for work, I found a bug in
> > Euphoria's dir() routine. It does not support extended ASCII
> > characters and just returns a question mark '?' in place of unknown
> > characters.
> 
> Hi. While this is great news and probably explain a crash I am having at
> work, I have encountered a problem with this, ie:
> 
> }}}
<eucode>
> junk = win_dir(folname)
> 
> the t_race shows after this line:
> folname={70F,58:,92\,100d,97a,116t,97a,92\,109m,117u,115s,105i,99c}
> junk={{{109m,117u,115s,105i,99c},{100d},0,105i,7,7,0,8,23}}
> <font color="#330033"></eucode>
{{{
</font>
> 
> Which is not right, since there is no 'music' subfolder of "F:\data\music".
> 
> I'm running WinXP SP2 and the F: Drive is NTFS.
> 
> Also, while I'm here, when this didn't work I was attempting to add this 
> to the include file:
> 
> }}}
<eucode>
> global function walk_win_dir(sequence path_name, integer your_function, 
>                                integer scan_subdirs)
>     object nothing
> 
>     my_dir = routine_id("win_dir") -- use win_dir() please
>                                    -- my_dir is global atom in file.e
>     nothing = walk_dir(path_name, your_function, scan_subdirs)
>     my_dir = -2 	           -- constant DEFAULT=-2 in file.e
>     return nothing
> end function
> <font color="#330033"></eucode>
{{{
</font>
> 
> I don't know if this can be incorporated?
> 
> Gary
>