joes@idunno.princeton.edu (Joe Studholme) (11/06/90)
Hi.
I am hunting for a way to get HyperCard to do the following:
Search a volume
Find all files that contain a given string in their name
Return the path (the long filename) of each file for which we get a
"hit"
For example, Jake K. User types the string "Druid" and its the 'find'
button. Hypercard will then search the hundreds of megabytes worth of
files on our server. After a (hopefully brief) pause, Jake is rewarded by
seeing a scrolling list with the results; aka:
----------------------------
| Druidic font |
| MacDruid |
| Druids and Dragoons |
----------------------------
He clicks on an item, and PRESTO - a copy is made, the file is run (or
destroyed), or whatever.
Now, I would have thought that there would be an XCMD or XFCN by now that
did this. But I can't seem to find one in my usual sources. Any help
would be appreciated...
<Joe Studholme>
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<CIT Advanced Applications Group>ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg) (11/06/90)
In <3846@idunno.Princeton.EDU> joes@idunno.princeton.edu (Joe Studholme) writes: > Find all files that contain a given string in their name (---) >files on our server. After a (hopefully brief) pause, Jake is rewarded by Get a list of all files (with full pathname) on the server. Then put the list into your HC stack and write some lines of HyperTalk to search for all occurences of the searchstring in the list. You will need a CopyFileXFCN. You could also use MountUnmountXCMD to mount and unmount the server within your script. I think that several disklibrarian programs could generate this sort of lists. I assume that the there are not so much changements on the server, so you only need to update the list every two weeks or something like that.
a_dent@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au (11/16/90)
In article <3846@idunno.Princeton.EDU>, joes@idunno.princeton.edu (Joe Studholme) writes: > Hi. > > I am hunting for a way to get HyperCard to do the following: > > Search a volume > Find all files that contain a given string in their name > Return the path (the long filename) of each file for which we get a > "hit" > Some of you may recall my question some time ago if people were interested in a program for reconciling/cleaning up floppy archives. It would compare file modification dates, delete old versions etc. My thoughts on implementation were to do this as a series of XCMDS (which I may also incorporate into a compiled application) so these operations could be carried out from Hypercard and FoxBASE+/Mac. My initial thought was to return a filename each time but it would be fairly easy to accumulate them as lines in a field, as you've described. > > Now, I would have thought that there would be an XCMD or XFCN by now that > did this. But I can't seem to find one in my usual sources. Any help > would be appreciated... I've already written "getSysFoldPath" which returns the pathname of the currently active (Blessed) System Folder. We use this in FoxBASE+/Mac applications for saving preference files. The extensions mentioned above wouldn't be too hard. Mind you, I'm now booking commercial work as far ahead as March so it might take me a month to find an afternoon to do this :-) > <Joe Studholme> > <joes@idunno.princeton.edu> > <CIT Advanced Applications Group> Andy Dent A.D. Software phone 09 249 2719 Mac & VAX programmer 94 Bermuda Dve, Ballajura a_dent@fennel.cc.uwa.oz Western Australia 6066 a_dent@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.AU (international)