> On 10 Feb 2022, at 11:10, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <perl6-users@perl.org>
> wrote:
> That is an interesting module. I am not sure what
> I would use it for though. Maybe in the future.
> It is a method of find out what a drive is.
>
> What I was after was finding the drive letter that
> corresponded to a logical volume label. The drive
> letter will vary from computer to computer, so I
> did not want to hard code the drive letter.
>
> >wmic logicaldisk get DeviceID,VolumeName
>
> got me there.
>
>
> use WinMessageBox :MessageBox;
> use WinMount :ListLogicalVolumes;
>
> sub GetDriveLetter() {
> # extract the drive letter in the format of "A:\" from logical volume name
>
> my $SubName = &?ROUTINE.name;
>
> for ListLogicalVolumes() -> $Volume {
> # print "$Volume\n";
> if not $Volume<Label> { next; }
>
> if $Volume<Label>.Str eq "Icedrive" {
> $IceDrive = $Volume<DriveLetter>.Str;
> last;
> } # if
> } # for
> # print "Drive letter <" ~ $IceDrive ~ ">\n";
>
> if not $IceDrive {
> MessageBox( $IAm ~ ": " ~ $SubName, "Unable to locate Icedrive label",
> MB_ICONERROR, MB_OK );
> }
>
> return $IceDrive;
> }
>
>
> Thank you for the help!
This seems like functionality that could well live in the ecosystem.
Have you considered giving back to the community by putting this into a module
(as well as the WinMessageBox and WinMount modules that it refers to, which I
assume to be your private modules) and uploading it to the ecosystem?
Even if nobody else would use it, your future self will probably find it very
useful!
Liz
