QB quirk on shell dir command?

[xra7en]

so working on my emu launcher. and found an interesting quirk (wont call it a bug)

dir /b /a-d drive:\path\to\folder\ *.bin,*.iso

The above works perfect from the command prompt as intended. Just the bin and iso files show
howeeevvver

Code: QB64: [Select]

1. ext = "*.bin,*.iso"
2. rom_path="d:\some big\long\path\to\roms\"
3. Shell _Hide "dir /b /a-d " + Chr$(34) + ROM_PATH + Chr$(34) + " " + EXT + " > ./romlist.txt"  

gives me ALL the files in the folder. which is what I don't want. Is this a goofy characteristic with QB64?

[SMcNeill]

Backwards slashes in the two examples?  (rom_path is reversed in its direction.)
Also there's no end slash, as per the working example, after roms.

[xra7en]

oops that was a mistake on my post. they are winblows slashes in the cmd they should have been "\" (I edited it to reflect this

UPDATE

I switched drives and did the command again, its a dos error. For some reason, it seems to ignore the switches on different drives.
so this is some weird quirk of dos "dir" from one drive to another. I just doesnt seem to see the /a-d part

[xra7en]

So if I do

c:\> dir /b /a-d "drive:\path\to\roms\snes\" *.iso,*.bin
it says:
the system cannoot find the file specified, and then lists ALL the files in the folder.

However, If I do this in the same drive, no errors, and it lists the two extensions requested.

Unless I forgot how my dos stuff works LOL - VERY possible.

wish list, get dir$ working so it can do this :-)

(or does it)

[xra7en]

OK, solved it this way:

cmd doesn't like the multiple extension in one line.
so used spriggy's split.string to split the extension


then looped through each split and wrote to the text file.

that all worked.

[bplus]

Or get all files and filter out ones you want? Might be faster than all that com with hard disk and OS.