File name with wild card on basic

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 8:43 am

Not as far as I know. You'd need to look up the current name (with a wildcard 'dir' perhaps) and then open it directly once you know the name.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 4:06 pm

Yes you can.

Open the file with OpenSeq then use the Status statement on the file variable. Field #6 of the dynamic array returned by Status contains the file size.

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OpenSeq filepath To file.fvar
Then
   Status FileInfo From file.fvar
   Then
      FileSize = FileInfo<6,1,1>
   End
End

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 5:14 pm

The part I was addressing was the 'using a wildcard on the file name' part. I don't believe that OpenSeq would support wildcards... or does it?

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 5:41 pm

No, but... Yeah, but...

Your routine could process the wildcard and check the size of each file in turn. Invoke ls through DSExecute, for example.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 6:02 pm

OK, then basically what I posted. (no pun intended)