Cmdline Parsing For Wildcards

[flyingboz]

Hi folks!

Been working on a commandline parse utility, and want it to be able to handle wildcards, i.e.

program inputfiles.*

I need to (at least)

parse the cmdline[] var

find the files that match, using ? and * correctly

loop through each file performing operations in program

Code snippets / samples / suggestions on approach welcome.

I've got the code working for a specific file, but would like to have a generic executable that could

a) be used as a standalone utility and,

be utilized as a piped or batched app.

I have viewed w/ interest the FileFindFirstFile / FileFindNextFile commands -- would

they be a recommended basis for what I am describing?

Thanks in advance!

[Jos]

I have viewed w/ interest the FileFindFirstFile / FileFindNextFile commands -- would

they be a recommended basis for what I am describing?

FileFindFirstFile / FileFindNextFile should work fine and you can use the example in the helpfile.

When you require to also search the subdirectories you could use something like the below script.

; this does a DIR of the current and subdirectories... and sorts the filenames
runwait('cmd /c Dir "' & $CmdLine[1] & '" /s /b /x /ON  > files.txt',@scriptdir,@sw_hide)
$ifile = FileOpen("files.txt", 0)
; Check if file opened for reading OK
If $ifile = -1 Then
   MsgBox(0, "Error", "Unable to open: files.txt")
   Exit
EndIf
While 1
   $Fi_Rec = FileReadLine($iFile)
   If @error = -1 Then ExitLoop
  ; do what you want to do 
Wend
FileFindFirstFile

Edited February 20, 2004 by JdeB

[flyingboz]

Thanks for the suggestion. Using FFFF/FFNF along w/ FileGetAttrib to process subdirs if necessary looks like it's going to work great! AutoIT ROCKS!!!