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Re: Filtering File Names with Dialog_Pickfile [message #60812 is a reply to message #60671]

Fri, 13 June 2008 05:05

Spon
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Registered: September 2007

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On Jun 13, 2:42 am, Andrew Cool <andrew.c...@dsto.defence.gov.au>
wrote:
> On Jun 12, 9:23 pm, Spon <christoph.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>> Hi,
>
>> our archive has a large folder that holds all our data folders (this
>> is a requirement of our data acquisition software). These folders tend
>> to have names that start with a researcher's initials, e.g.
>> 'RB1006_17.Xz0'.
>
>> Is there any clever way to get Dialog_Pickfile to display only certain
>> folders as defined by a regexp? Unfortunately very little can be
>> gleaned from the extension, which the acquisition software allocates
>> by some mystic method, and cannot be changed unless I never want that
>> software to recognise the data folder ever again (I _DON'T_ want to do
>> this...)
>
>> I've been playing around with the FILE and FILTER keywords, but they
>> only seem to control file extensions, and are unable to filter by
>> searching the file name.
>
>> What I'm looking for is something like this:
>
>> CD, ArchiveDir
>> Dir = Dialog_Pickfile(/Read, /Must_Exist, /Dir, Filter = 'RB*.*')
>
>> That would show only those sub-folders within ArchiveDir that have
>> 'RB' in their name. But it doesn't work. Neither with nor without /
>> Directory set.
>> I'd rather not have to write my own pickfile widget if there's a
>> clever way of using the inbuilt one :-)
>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris
>
> Chris,
>
> Are you sure that Dialog_pickfile is want you want to use?
>
> IDL> cdir = file_search('C:\c*',/test_dir)
> IDL> print,cdir
> C:\CR C:\Cool
> IDL> help,cdir
> CDIR STRING = Array[2]
>
> This returns just the two directories on my C:\ drive that start with
> 'c'
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew

Thanks Bob, Vince & Andrew, all very helpful suggestions.

Well spotted, Vince, it's ParaVision. Thanks for the info regarding
filenames. Makes sense now that I look back on it!

The symbolic link idea is good. How cross-platform compatible is it?
Our archive is linux, but our users use macs & windows boxes.
I think Andrew's idea of using File_Search (and then a combobox, I
guess) looks very promising though, so that's my first port of call.

Thanks,
Chris

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		Filtering File Names with Dialog_Pickfile By: Spon on Thu, 12 June 2008 05:23
		Re: Filtering File Names with Dialog_Pickfile By: Vince Hradil on Fri, 13 June 2008 08:59
		Re: Filtering File Names with Dialog_Pickfile By: Spon on Fri, 13 June 2008 05:05
		Re: Filtering File Names with Dialog_Pickfile By: Andrew Cool on Thu, 12 June 2008 18:42
		Re: Filtering File Names with Dialog_Pickfile By: Vince Hradil on Thu, 12 June 2008 12:18
		Re: Filtering File Names with Dialog_Pickfile By: Bob[3] on Thu, 12 June 2008 12:00
		Re: Filtering File Names with Dialog_Pickfile By: Jean H. on Thu, 12 June 2008 08:53

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