Re: Re: Examining a directory with OpenOffice.org Basic

Den 2010-12-01 14:53:01 skrev Clayton <[email protected]>:

> On 12/01/2010 02:38 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>> 2010/12/1 Johnny Rosenberg:
>>> If I know the name of a directory, let's say ~/MyImages, how can I
>>> easily read the names of all the files in that directory? Let's say
>>> that we will fill an array with all the file names.
>>>
>>> I have searched a bit online, but so far I didn't find anything that I
>>> understand… I'll continue searching, though.
>>
>> He he he… I tried again to search for the answer and this time I found
>> it almost immediately… At least I think I did:
>>
>> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/BASIC_Guide/Files_and_Directories_(Runtime_Library)
>>
>> Seems to be what I am looking for.
>>
>> Other thoughts about this are still welcome, though.
>
> I'm interested in how useful you find the Basic Guide Wiki page you dug  
> up.  Is it missing info?  Anything unclear etc?  What can be or needs to  
> be improved?
>
> C.

Well, I tried to follow the first example that stores file names, found in  
a directory, to a variable, but it didn't work. The Dir thing didn't find  
anything, even though I know there are 52 jpg files in there. I even  
copied the path name from my file manager. I'm not yet sure why this  
didn't work, but I have had some thoughts about it:

Maybe I can't use spaces in path names? That's too bad, because I do that  
all the time.
Maybe I entered the path name wrong. The example search "C:\" which isn't  
relevant to me, since C: is very Windows/DOS specific; I'm on Ubuntu 10.10  
and my path looks something like "/home/username/some folder/another  
folder/yet another folder/".
Maybe my path name is just too long?

Any hints?

-- 
Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg