OpenEuphoria

haha very funny

• Posted by euman at bellsouth.net Oct 21, 2001
• 369 views

sequence dirs
    dirs = dir(FileSpec)
    for i = 1 to length(dirs) do

dirs will actually contain file or directory info if there are any files or
directories

This from the Euphoria docs:

d = dir(current_dir()) -- this says right up front dir( ) returns a sequence
doesnt it!

-- d might have:
  {
    {".",    "d",     0  1994, 1, 18,  9, 30, 02},
    {"..",   "d",     0  1994, 1, 18,  9, 20, 14},
    {"fred", "ra", 2350, 1994, 1, 22, 17, 22, 40},
    {"sub",  "d" ,    0, 1993, 9, 20,  8, 50, 12}
  }

OK, very well then, but when it doesnt contain info the return value is -1 which
gives us a type_check error...

OK then, we name dirs as an object and because we look for a length to dirs
next we get this error message > length of an atom not defined.....huh

this from the Euphoria Docs
If there is no file or directory with this name then -1 is returned

OK, if we keep the dir defined as an object and run a test to make sure dirs is
not -1 like
this:

if dir(FileSpec) != -1 then we get  true/false condition must be an ATOM

and damn I could list several other error messages and code but you all get the
point now.

We are so restricted it's not funny...
I'll go to bed now.....later yall.

Euman
euman at bellsouth.net