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Re: parse subdirectories [message #94261 is a reply to message #94260]

Wed, 15 March 2017 11:23

lecacheux.alain
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Le mercredi 15 mars 2017 16:02:42 UTC+1, Helder a écrit :
> On Tuesday, March 14, 2017 at 12:04:15 AM UTC+1, Helder wrote:
>> Thanks for the insight Wayne.
>> I think I will go for the sort/count slashes option. Otherwise programming is no fun.
>> Cheers, Helder
>
> Ok,
> so I managed this and it is working fine. The improvement is there: crawling through 2000 sub-directories takes ~9 seconds against the >14 sec with the old file_search method.
> Now the time to execute is limited by the spawn command (8.5 sec), whereas before it was limited by the file_search (13 sec).
> If anybody requests it and I have time I'll put the code together in a "nicer" way.
> Cheers,
> Helder

Maybe you could simply reorder your string array first by using SORT ?

print, result[sort(result)]

K:\data\sub-1\2002
K:\data\sub-1\2002\02_01_26
K:\data\sub-1\2002\02_01_28
K:\data\sub-1\2004
K:\data\sub-1\2004\04_12_02
K:\data\sub-1\2004\04_12_03
K:\data\sub-1\2005
K:\data\sub-1\2017

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		parse subdirectories By: Helder Marchetto on Mon, 13 March 2017 09:32
		Re: parse subdirectories By: wlandsman on Mon, 13 March 2017 10:41
		Re: parse subdirectories By: Helder Marchetto on Mon, 13 March 2017 16:04
		Re: parse subdirectories By: Helder Marchetto on Wed, 15 March 2017 04:06
		Re: parse subdirectories By: Helder Marchetto on Wed, 15 March 2017 08:02
		Re: parse subdirectories By: lecacheux.alain on Wed, 15 March 2017 11:23
		Re: parse subdirectories By: Helder Marchetto on Wed, 15 March 2017 13:05
		Re: parse subdirectories By: Helder Marchetto on Thu, 16 March 2017 05:29
		Re: parse subdirectories By: Matthew Argall on Thu, 16 March 2017 08:07
		Re: parse subdirectories By: bradgom on Thu, 16 March 2017 10:29
		Re: parse subdirectories By: Helder Marchetto on Fri, 17 March 2017 01:17
		Re: parse subdirectories By: Helder Marchetto on Thu, 18 May 2017 02:09

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