Delete ALL folders except...

[erebus]

Hello all,

I want to complete a script but it seems like I have stuck here...

What I want to do, is to store some subfolder names to a variable (or an array) in an .INI file and to DirRemove ALL the contects of the parent folder, except the declared ones.

For example if we have:

$keep[1] = "keep.folder.1"

$keep[2] = "keep.folder.2"

$keep[3] = "keep.folder.3"

And the folder tree is like:

C:\Do.the.job.here\keep.folder.1\

C:\Do.the.job.here\keep.folder.2\

C:\Do.the.job.here\keep.folder.3\

C:\Do.the.job.here\keep.folder.4\

C:\Do.the.job.here\other.folder.1\

C:\Do.the.job.here\other.folder.2\

C:\Do.the.job.here\other.folder.3\

...I want only "keep.folder.4" and "other.folder.*" to be deleted.

Any ideas of how to accomplish this are more than welcome.

Edited February 13, 2007 by erebus

[BALA]

You could have it check the path, or name, of the file by using something like _PathSplit, then using an If-Then statement, have it check for those files, and if they are those files, delete them.

[erebus]

I don't know what files I want to delete.

I just know what files I want to exempt.

Please do not hurry to answer.

[BALA]

Then just invert what I said; IF the file's name match THEN, don't delete, ELSE delete

[erebus]

Yes, can you help me a bit more?

Give a code example if possible.

Edit: The problem here is how to check within a For/Next loop for my array. Maybe it is going to work for a one-dimensional array. What about a two-dimensional one?

Edited February 13, 2007 by erebus

[erebus]

Ok, I finally used a one-dimensional array and _ArraySearch seems to do the job just fine.

Thank you all.