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Re: file_search windows problem [message #35070]

Thu, 15 May 2003 04:00

Jacques Basson
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Registered: May 1999

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R.G. Stockwell wrote:
> "Jacques Basson" <basson@cyclopsNoSpAmnu.ac.za> wrote in message
> news:1052909384.778379@osprey.und.ac.za...
>
>> Hi all
>
> ...
>
>> IDL> print, findfile('C:\tmp\*B9*')
>> C:\tmp\123456789E.dat C:\tmp\1234567B9E.dat
>
> ...
>
>> Does anyone have any suggestion for a workaround?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jacques
>
>
>
> huh! weird, i've not noticed this behaviour before. I might even say
> it's a bug. Certainly performs counterintuitively.
>
> Anyways, an obvious solution is just to select the files from your returned
> array yourself
> (with perhaps a strupcas() if you want case independence)
>
> files = findfile('C:\tmp\*B9*')
> w = where(strpos(strupcase(files),'B9') gt 0,count)
> if count gt 0 then files=files[w] else files='NULL'
> print,files
>
>
> Cheers,
> bob
>

In some circles it would be called a "feature" rather than a bug... I
was hoping that there may be a more elegant solution than searching the
returned array, but I'll go with that for now.

Thanks,
Jacques

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