QT: how do I determine wheter a chosen file is within the same folder as a new chosen destination folder?

William de Smet williamdesmet at gmail.com
Fri Sep 12 02:37:11 EDT 2008


Thanks Ken,
You make my day!

And I learned again :-)

greetings,

William

2008/9/12 Ken Ray <kray at sonsothunder.com>

>
> > on mouseUp
> >   answer file "Kies bestand:"
> >     if the result is "Cancel"
> >     then exit mouseUp
> >   else put it into bLijst
> >
> >     answer folder "Kies map" -- selection of destination folder
> >   if the result is "Cancel" then exit mouseUp
> >   put it & "/" into bMap
> > end mouseup
> >
> > After this I write back a new file into bMap.
> > But...I don't want destfolder to be the same folder as where the chosen
> file
> > is in.
> > Otherwise the file will be overwritten.
> >
> > I tried with:
> > if filePath bLijst is within filePath bMap then answer error "Fout!"
> > but that doesn't work.
> >
> > Any idea's?
>
> Yes... do this:
>
> if (char 1 to length(bMap) of bLijst) = bMap then
>   -- in same folder
> else
>   -- in different folder
> end if
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>
>
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