Reading Directories and Files without SHELLing out

[doppler]

One last question for this neat new tool bag trick.

When directories and files are found.  Will they always be in sorted order ?

I created a test directory with files and directories created out of order.  Running the program
everything became sorted properly.

I expected the list to be as found (out of order in directory) not sorted.

I can take advantage of this.  If this will always be the case.

[SMcNeill]

To be honest, I don’t know.  Usually you can change sorting order by parameter (sort by name, or size, or type), and I don’t remember if I specified for this to sort by name, or if it’s just doing it by default.  (In which case, the default sort method might not be the same all the time.). I’ll have to dig back into my own code later, and sort out how/if it’s handling sorting for us.

It’s a great question; I just don’t have a great answer for it, at the moment.  😳

[Petr]

I think (but I'm not sure) that under Linux I got output that was not alphabetized. Some Linux users would have to try that. I shut down the Linux computer because I was using an old snail with Linux disguised as a computer ...

[Cobalt]

It *does* get the file_size for us; we just never return it anywhere to make use of it:

thats odd, when I tried storing and printing the file size earlier(when I made that post) it only showed '0' for all file sizes.. thats why I thought it wasn't working. In fact it does show file size now.. very odd. I sit corrected.


*some how a /code was stuck in my post... must have missed it when I made the quote. all fixed.

[SMcNeill]

thats odd, when I tried storing and printing the file size earlier(when I made that post) it only showed '0' for all file sizes.. thats why I thought it wasn't working. In fact it does show file size now.. very odd. I sit corrected.

I'd say that was the same issue with it not sorting directories and folders for you.  The version I posted last fixed that issue as well, so you shouldn't have a problem with either from now on.  ;)

[luke]

The 'order' of the returned files is determined by the file system driver, and tends to be a reflection of how things are organised in the file system data structures.

In short, they're in absolutely no order at all.

You'll need to read all the items then sort them yourself by whatever parameter you want.