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

Johnny ,

ConvertToURL all path's ?


> 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?
>