Directory Walker Conundrum

[Alex Tweedly]

Sivakatirswami wrote:

> I'm using an old Ken Ray stand by for directory walks.  I discovered  
> a "bug" here where, if the folder name begins with a space, it is  
> skipped. I cannot for the life of me figure out why...
>
> on directoryWalk whatFolder
>   set the itemDel to "/"
>   set the directory to whatFolder
>   put the files into  tFiles
>   put the files into temp
>   add the number of lines of temp to tCount
>   sort temp
>   repeat for each line x in temp
>     put whatFolder & "/" & x & cr after gHierList
>   end repeat
>   put the folders into tDirList
>   sort tDirList

now the folder with a leading space in its name comes before the ".."

>   delete line 1 of tDirList

And is now deleted :-(

>   repeat for each line x in tDirList
>     if x = ".."  then next repeat
>     directoryWalk (whatFolder & "/" & x)
>   end repeat
> end directoryWalk

change
   delete line 1 of tDirList
to something like
   filter tDirList without ".."


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