__Dir()*

Display listings of files

Syntax

__Dir( [<cFileMask>] ) --> NIL

Arguments

<cFileMask> File mask to include in the function return. It could contain path and standard wildcard characters as supported by your OS (like * and ?). If <cFileMask> contains no path, then SET DEFAULT path is used to display files in the mask.

Returns

__Dir() always returns NIL.

Description

If no <cFileMask> is given, __Dir() displays information about all *.dbf in the SET DEFAULT path. This information contains: file name, number of records, last update date and the size of each file.

If <cFileMask> is given, __Dir() list all files that match the mask with the following details: Name, Extension, Size, Date.

DIR command is preprocessed into __Dir() function during compile time.

__Dir() is a compatibility function, it is superseded by DIRECTORY() which return all the information in a multidimensional array.

      __Dir()      // information for all DBF files in current directory

      __Dir( "*.dbf" )         // list all DBF file in current directory

      // list all PRG files in Harbour Run-Time library
      // for DOS compatible operating systems
      __Dir( "c:\harbour\source\rtl\*.prg" )

      // list all files in the public section on a Unix like machine
      __Dir( "/pub" )

Status

Ready

Compliance

DBF information: CA-Clipper displays 8.3 file names, Harbour displays the first 15 characters of a long file name if available.

File listing: To format file names displayed we use something like: PadR( Name, 8 ) + " " + PadR( Ext, 3 ) CA-Clipper use 8.3 file name, with Harbour it would probably cut long file names to feet this template.

Files

Library is rtl

See Also

• ADIR()
• DIRECTORY()
• SET DEFAULT
• DIR