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Re: findfile gives 'Array has a corrupted descriptor' error [message #85337 is a reply to message #85335]

Fri, 26 July 2013 05:54

Phillip Bitzer
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Registered: June 2006

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On Thursday, July 25, 2013 7:44:55 PM UTC-5, b_...@hotmail.com wrote:
> I running IDL 8.2.3 on Win7 64bit. I have an older program that uses findfile() to recursively find a set of filenames with a wildcard. I realize findfile is obsolete, but it runs *much* faster than file_search. When the findfile returns more than ~5000 files, however, I get the following error:
>
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> found=file_search(uval.path+'*',count=count,/mark_dir)
>

Are you looking for all files in recursive directories? If so, try this on for size:

found = file_search(uval.path, '*', count=count,/mark_dir)

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		findfile gives 'Array has a corrupted descriptor' error By: b_gom on Thu, 25 July 2013 17:44
		Re: findfile gives 'Array has a corrupted descriptor' error By: David Fanning on Thu, 25 July 2013 18:05
		Re: findfile gives 'Array has a corrupted descriptor' error By: Phillip Bitzer on Fri, 26 July 2013 05:54
		Re: findfile gives 'Array has a corrupted descriptor' error By: wlandsman on Fri, 26 July 2013 08:29
		Re: findfile gives 'Array has a corrupted descriptor' error By: David Fanning on Fri, 26 July 2013 08:34
		Re: findfile gives 'Array has a corrupted descriptor' error By: b_gom on Fri, 26 July 2013 10:34
		Re: findfile gives 'Array has a corrupted descriptor' error By: b_gom on Fri, 26 July 2013 12:54
		Re: findfile gives 'Array has a corrupted descriptor' error By: b_gom on Fri, 26 July 2013 16:51
		Re: findfile gives 'Array has a corrupted descriptor' error By: b_gom on Tue, 30 July 2013 10:16

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