At 16:18 -0800 02/18/2004, Lewandowski, James R. wrote: >I'm trying to read all file names from a directory into an array and then choose the >ones to process. The "List Directory" vi implies that it will do this but >I'm not having much luck. > >The vi will produce a list of my available drives if I do not give it a path name. > >Any hints on making it work?
Give it a path? Seriously, the VI has to know which directory to list! You may need to build a path from the current directory, the volume info, default directory or something, but you need to give it a directory to list! There is buried in the vi.lib/platform/filemanager and vi.lib/utility/recursiveDirList.llb some useful routines for searching directory structures. Unfortunately I don't believe that the recursiveDIrList utilites are actually recursive. There is also a directory listing VI examination utility at <http://sthmac.magnet.fsu.edu/labview/vi_library.html> (that is not truly recursive either, but I will redo it someday....). -Scott -- - Dr. Scott Hannahs, Head of User Research Instrumentation - - http://sthmac.magnet.fsu.edu - - National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University - - 1800 E. Paul Dirac Dr., Tallahassee FL 32310, (850)644-0216/FAX 644-0534 - "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." -- Robert Cringley ("Triumph of the Nerds").
