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yep

Post subject: file name into variable?

Posted: March 21st, 2008, 12:39 am

I'm trying to list the files in a directory and store the name of a type of file into a variable. For example:

default.txt
default.NRT
default.N2

I'm trying to get the name of the NRT file so I can overwrite it with another file. I'm able to loop through the directory but not able to put the name of the NRT file into a variable.

Can someone point me in the right direction or provide a snippet?

thanks

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wOxxOm

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Posted: March 21st, 2008, 1:01 am

Joined: February 9th, 2006, 8:36 pm
Posts: 338

Code:

loop,*.nrt
{
  nrtfile:=A_LoopFileName
.....................
}

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yep

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Posted: March 21st, 2008, 2:22 am

hmmm that doesn't seem to work for some reason. Not sure yet why.

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Guest

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Posted: March 21st, 2008, 11:39 pm

ok I think whats happening is that the global variable never gets populated inside the loop.

global nrtfile:=A_LoopFileName

throws and error

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wOxxOm

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Posted: March 22nd, 2008, 12:19 am

Joined: February 9th, 2006, 8:36 pm
Posts: 338

maybe spearate the declaration and assignment?

Code:

global nrtfile
................
loop,*.nrt 
{ 
  nrtfile:=A_LoopFileName 
..................... 
}

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trik

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Posted: March 22nd, 2008, 12:44 am

Joined: July 15th, 2007, 1:43 am
Posts: 1320

Code:

FindFiles(Type, Path) {
   Loop, %Path%\*.%Type%
   {
      files .= A_LoopFileName "|"
   }
   Return files
}

Example:

Code:

Gui, +ToolWindow
Gui, Add, DropDownList, w100 h100, % FindFiles("ahk", A_ScriptDir) ; Populate the DDL with all of the files of the file type specified.
Gui, Show,, DDL Test

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Guest

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Posted: March 22nd, 2008, 12:46 am

Is the NRT file in the sript's working dir?
If not you need to specify the file path or set the working directory to the right place

Code:

SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir% ; or where ever the file is located

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