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Re: Reading whole directories [message #18192]

Mon, 13 December 1999 00:00

thompson
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Registered: August 1991

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"R.Bauer" <R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de> writes:

> "S.N. Heukels" wrote:

>> I have created a WIDGET that runs fine with 1 file.
>> I've now been looking into the possibility of having the user select a
>> directory and process every file in that directory.
>> Is there a way to gain a string or array containing every file in the
>> directory a user selects >> ??
>>
>> Greets Sean Heukels
>>
>> Invivonmr institute
>> Utrecht University, The Netherlands

> look at findfile()

> R.Bauer

I seem to recall that FINDFILE() has some problems with directories containing
large numbers of files. Stein Vidar Haugan wrote a routine called FIND_FILE()
that gets around this limitation. It can be found at

ftp://sohoftp.nascom.nasa.gov/solarsoft/gen/idl/system/find_ file.pro

William Thompson

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