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Re: walk_dir issue

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Oct 19, 2004
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Juergen Luethje wrote:
> 
> Derek Parnell wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure if this is a bug or design feature but if you pass
> > a path with wildcards to walk_dir, the routine_id that it calls
> > receives a Path parameter with the wildcard specification included.
> >
> > For example:
> >
> >   res = walk_dir("C:\\temp\\test.*", routine_id("dirfunc"), 1)
> >
> > Then the routine 'dirfunc' gets "C:\temp\test.*" in the path name
> > parameter. I was expecting it to get "C:\temp" instead.
> 
> To me it looks like a design feature. In 'lib_u_z.htm#walk_dir' it
> reads: "... directory with path name given by st."
> 
> "C:\\temp\\test.*" is not a valid path name on DOS/Windows because of
> the '*' that it contains.
> 

In that case its a bug, because it calls my user-defined routine for
each matching file in c:\temp.

-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia