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Re: Filtering File Names with Dialog_Pickfile [message #60817 is a reply to message #60671]

Thu, 12 June 2008 12:18

Vince Hradil
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Registered: December 1999

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On Jun 12, 7:23 am, 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

If this is a *nix system you could use symbolic links.
Is this a ParaVision system. The extension is: the first two
characters are the date. The third character is the scan (what we
call scan - paravision may know it as study?)
So yesterday (June 11, 2008) was .NQ ... Today is .NR (I'm not sure if
yours has the same sequence, but it goes a-z then A-Z for each
character. Then the scans today are .NR1, .NR2, .NR3...

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[Message index]

		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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