Re: I need help with .IO.d.Bool

On 4/2/25 6:08 PM, Bruce Gray wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Apr 2, 2025, at 19:47, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <[email protected]> wrote:
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> --snip--
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>>    raku -e "say '\\192.168.240.10\oldserver\Backup\MyDocsBackup\backup1'.IO.d.Bool;"
>>    False
> 
> --snip--
> 
> Moving this one-liner into a .raku file (to remove the complication of Windows needing double-quotes for our `-e`), and removing `.IO.d.Bool`, I ran just this line:
> 	say '\\192.168.240.10\oldserver\Backup\MyDocsBackup\backup1';
> The output is:
> 		\192.168.240.10\oldserver\Backup\MyDocsBackup\backup1
> So, the initial two backslashes are becoming a single backslash.
> You need a quoting that does not special-case doubled backslashes (like the Q[] I have seen you use), or to enter the path with initial quadruple backslashes.
> 
> Does changing your one-liner to this:
> 	raku -e "say Q[\\192.168.240.10\oldserver\Backup\MyDocsBackup\backup1].IO.d.Bool;"
> fix the problem?
> If not, remove the `.Bool` just for a test run. You might still get False (like if the path exists but is not a directory), or you might get a Exception that gives you more detail of what is going wrong (like `Failed to find ...`, with the exact path that it was *actually* looking for).
> 


Hi Bruce,

I need the function to operate with the exact path
assigned by Windows.  No adding or subtracting.

This was my work around:


sub Directory( Str $DriveDirectory ) returns Bool is export( :Directory )  {
    # True if a Directory or Drive Letter

    my Str $RtnStr   = RunCmd( "powershell.exe test-path  -Path " ~ Q["] 
~ $DriveDirectory ~ Q["] ~ " -PathType Container", True );
    # print "RtnStr = <$RtnStr>\n";
    if $RtnStr.lc.starts-with( "true" )  { return True; } else { return 
False; }
}


Notice that I did not have to mess the `$DriveDirectory`?

.IO.d.Bool needs to do the same.

Let me know if you want the code for `RunCmd`.

Thank you for the help,
-T