Only grabbing files with certain abbreviation in name

[Dogcode]

I'm wishing to grab a file from my directory with a specified abbrevation:

For example

janne1234567890

And it would take all files with janne, add it into $attachedfiles.

Can anyone help?

[JohnOne]

_FileListToArray
StringInStr

[SmOke_N]

@JohnOne

What if there were two files:

janne1234567890

jannette1234567890

?

Local $aArray[] = ["jannette1234567890", "janne1234567890"]
Local $sFind = "janne"
Local $sPatt = "(?i)^\Q" & $sFind & "\E[^a-z]"

For $i = 0 To UBound($aArray) - 1
    ConsoleWrite($aArray[$i] & ((StringRegExp($aArray[$i], $sPatt) <> 0) ? " match found!" : "") & @CRLF)
Next

Edited January 24, 2015 by SmOke_N

[iamtheky]

or just

#include<File.au3>
#include<Array.au3>

$aFiles =_FileListToArray(@ScriptDir , "janne*")

_ArrayDisplay($aFiles)

[SmOke_N]

@boththose, both yours and Johns are preferable (especially speed wise) to mine.  The issue I see is yours would also pickup jannette... anyway, hopefully your two suggestions are the preference.

[iamtheky]

I saw yours as filtering the returned array from johns suggestion not as an alternative (well never mind i suppose it is an alternative to the stringinstr), is there a way to regex the filelist on the fly?

Edited January 24, 2015 by boththose

[kylomas]

@SmOke_N - Why do use this notation

Local $aArray[] = ["jannette1234567890", "janne1234567890"]

instead of

Local $aArray = ["jannette1234567890", "janne1234567890"]

Just hoping to learn something...

[JohnOne]

Is one of those a map.

I see the issue with my suggestion.

[Melba23]

boththose,

_FileListToArrayRec uses an internal regex (created from the passed filter) to determine the return and I have often wondered whether to allow for a user defined regex in its place. Now the question has been raised I will look again at how it might be implemented.

kylomas & JohnOne,

From a future version of the Help file:

Both Arrays and Maps use similar syntax, so care is required to ensure the variable is of the correct datatype - this is determined by the first declaration line for the variable:

Using empty [ ] declares a Map:

  Local $vVar[] ; A Map

Filling the [ ] with a dimension size declares an Array:

 Local $vVar[3] ; An Array

Assigning element values when declaring makes the variable an Array - these three lines are functionally equivalent:

  Local $vVar[3] = [1, 2, 3] ; An Array
  Local $vVar[] = [1, 2, 3] ; An Array
  Local $vVar = [1, 2, 3] ; An Array

M23 Edited January 24, 2015 by Melba23
Typo

[iamtheky]

with dos and stringinstr (which could no doubt be improved with a regex)

#include<Array.au3>

$iPID = run("cmd /c dir janne0* janne1* janne2* janne3* janne4* janne5* janne6* janne7* janne8* janne9*" , @ScriptDir, @SW_HIDE, $STDERR_CHILD + $STDOUT_CHILD)

    Local $sOutput = ""
    While 1
        $sOutput = StdoutRead($iPID)
        If @error Then
            ExitLoop
        EndIf
    $aFiles = stringsplit($sOutput , @LF)
    If $aFiles[0] > 1 Then
For $i = ubound($aFiles) - 1 to 0 step -1
If Not stringinstr($aFiles[$i] , "janne") Then _ArrayDelete($aFiles , $i)
Next
 _ArrayDisplay($aFiles)
EndIf
    WEnd

[guinness]

@SmOke_N - Why do use this notation

Local $aArray[] = ["jannette1234567890", "janne1234567890"]

instead of

Local $aArray = ["jannette1234567890", "janne1234567890"]

Just hoping to learn something...

I don't believe it is widely known really. I use it though.

[kylomas]

@M23 - Thanks, I know it's a map but why use one in this context (it was subsequently accessed like an array).  My question was phrased incorrectly.

edit: In fact, does not the initializer turn it into an array?

Edited January 24, 2015 by kylomas

[Melba23]

kylomas,

 

I know it's a map

Read what I posted more carefully - if you assign the elements on declaration it is always an array.

M23

[guinness]

I will look again at how it might be implemented.

This is quite a rare case and I really believe a callback function would be a more appropriate solution, as I have felt recently that I would like to do something with the discovered file/folder before being added to the array and not after. Especially when searching large drives. Edited January 24, 2015 by guinness

[kylomas]

@M23 - Yes, was typing that with my slow old fingers as you replied.  Which brings us full circle to my original question.

[Melba23]

guinness,

I quite agree and will take it into consideration.

kylomas,

Glad we agree.

M23

[guinness]

I quite agree and will take it into consideration.

Excellent. By the way I did some winter cleaning recently on the function by moving variables to their correct scope.

[Dogcode]

Thanks everyone,

so using Bothose's code:

$aFiles =_FileListToArray(@ScriptDir, "janne*")

 

How would i mail them with the $Attachfiles of Jos's smtp mailer?

 

I'm trying to send family photos labeled by member

Edited January 24, 2015 by Dogcode

[guinness]

That was bothose I believe. I can't take credit for that.

[Dogcode]

That was bothose I believe. I can't take credit for that.

 

Woops, mistake lol C;

Thanks anyways.