comp.lang.idl-pvwave archive: archive » Another file

Home » Public Forums » archive » Another file_search problem

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator
E-mail to friend

Another file_search problem [message #47623]

Mon, 20 February 2006 01:06

Jacques.Basson
Messages: 1
Registered: February 2006

Junior Member

Hi all

Just another file_search / Windows problem that I came across and I
thought I'd warn people about. It seems that Windows (XP with NTFS at
least) ignores trailing dots on a directory, and for most cases ignores
them when performing file operations.

So if you create a directory called "C:\TES.T.\" and put a file called
"test.txt" in there, then the following functions are equivalent and
work just fine
openr, u, 'C:\TES.T.\test.txt', /get_lun
openr, u, 'C:\TES.T\text.txt', /get_lun
as do read_image, etc.

Unfortunately, file_search("C:\TES.T.\*") returns nothing, while
file_search("C:\TES.T\*") is OK. However, (as usual when file_search
fails you), findfile("C:\TES.T.\*") and findfile("C:\TES.T\*") both
work.

Oh, and just to make the problem a bit more obscure, you need the 1st
dot (located between the "S" and the "T" in this example) for this to
work...

Cheers,
Jacques

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

Another file_search problem

By: Jacques.Basson on Mon, 20 February 2006 01:06

Previous Topic:	Re: Image proccesing programs
Next Topic:	Re: Minimum area ellipse - quadratic optimisation?

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

] [

]

Current Time: Wed Oct 08 18:39:58 PDT 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.00162 seconds