Description

Returns the list of files in the specified directory.

Can optionally search through all sub-directories, as well as only retrieve file names matching a certain pattern.

Functional area

System

Command syntax

Syntax

getFileList "searchDirectory"[-recursive] [-pattern string] [-nameOnly] [-sort string string]

Arguments

Name	Type	Required	Comments
`searchDirectory`	string	yes	The directory to search for files in.

Flags

Name	Flag arguments	Argument type	Exclusive to	Comments
`recursive`	0	—	—	Searches for files in sub-directories of the specified directory. By default sub-directories are not searched.
`pattern`	1	string	—	Specifies the file name pattern to match when searching for files. Default is to search for all files (".")
`nameOnly`	0	—	—	Specifies that only the file name portion (including extension) be returned instead of the full file path (e.g. return "MyFile.hdf" for "C:/Data/MyFile.hdf").
`sort`	2	string	—	Specifies that the returned file list be sorted according to the given criteria. The first argument can be either "name", "path", "size", "created", "modified", and "accessed". The second argument can be either "asc" or "desc" for ascending and descending, respectively. By default the files are returned in the order in which they are encountered.

Return value

string array

Returns a string array with all of the files found.

Examples

// Get list of files in a directory.
int    $i, $count;
string $path = "c:/data/day/";
string $files[];
 
// Get all the c3d files in the directory
$files = `getFileList $path -pattern "*.c3d"`;
 
// Get the number of files returned
$count = `getCount $files`;
 
// Operate on each file
for( $i = 0; $i < $count; 
    $i += 1 )
  {
    // Do something with the file
    // ...
    // ...
  }