[PD] [getfilenames] alpha test release

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Fri Jul 9 17:58:56 CEST 2010


On Jul 8, 2010, at 5:26 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> I just added a meta info API to my new [getfilenames] object.  Its  
>> an object doing glob/wildcard patterns and going thru the list in a  
>> manner simmilar to [textfile].  Attached is the object wrapped into  
>> the 'ezfile' library, which is just beginning.  Its compile for GNU/ 
>> Linux 32-bit and Mac OS X Universal (no Windows yet). let me know  
>> what y'all think.
>
> Did you encounter any situations in which a long long list of files  
> was inappropriate, such that you *had* to switch to a first/next  
> interface ?
>
> Or what else made you switch to that ?


I just found that this interface was easier to program with.  Plus  
[folder_list] doesn't output a proper list, but rather just a bunch of  
symbol messages, one per file.

.hc


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