[PD] external for reading files from directories?

[ix at replic.net]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 05:25:12PM +0200, Bryan Jurish wrote:
> 
> morning,
> 
> I actually wrote an external for the basics of this
> ([readdir]) -- it works on linux and allegedly on OSX
> and win32... source and some binaries are available at
> (and/or linked to from):

it seems there are many approaches to this problem as there are users... i'll add my solution to the heap, dd.wid and q.wid for toxy: http://whats-your.name/pd/gui/q.gif


> 
> ... you'd have to handle the actual glob-matching

re:glob, you notice its a syscall? man glob, at least on UNIX(esque) platforms.. i think it would be cool to be able to access these system calls via normal pd messages, without weirdo externals or scripting-language extensions.

> yourself, though, but that should be easily done
> with e.g. zexy's [l2s]...
> 
> marmosets,
> 	Bryan
> 
>  > > Mike Wozniewski wrote:
>  > > > Hi,
>  > > >
>  > > > Is there an external for reading the contents of a directory/folder on
>  > > > the file system? Preferably, this external would output a list of
>  > > symbol
>  > > > names... and allow you to specify a set of extensions (eg, it would
>  > > > return only .jpg .gif .png etc).
> 
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