[Gambas-user] How do I fetch a list of files?

[Benoit Minisini]

On Tuesday 01 March 2005 14:43, Oliver Stieber wrote:
>  --- Eldon Eller <eeller at ...826...> wrote:
> > Yet another dumb question (YADQ): I am writing a
> > gambas app where I want
> > the user to select from a list of files (not via a
> > dialog). So I need a
> > way to fetch the file names from a specified
> > directory. How do I do that?
>
> dir,
> but it seems broken for UTF8 filenames.
> you can use something like...
>
> DIM Directory AS String
> DIM Files AS String[]
> DIM file AS String
> Directory = "/home/foo"
> Files = Dir(Directory, "*")
> print Files.count
> FOR EACH file IN Files
>
> NEXT
>

What do you mean exactly by "it seems broken for UTF-8 filenames" ?

Dir() returns all file names in UTF-8 format. But not OPEN - This will change 
in the next version, where everything should be UTF-8.

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini
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