Filtering FIle Types

[Peter M. Brigham]

you can use the following:

function filterByType pFileList, pType
   -- assuming pType is of the form "jpg" or "png"
   filter pFileList by ("*." & pType)
   return pFileList
end filterByType

and call it repeatedly for whatever file types you want.

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
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On Sep 1, 2014, at 4:28 PM, JB wrote:

> I have not tried it yet but if it works
> the problem is I might want to use
> a variety of file types so the repeat
> would filter one line at a time and
> then you check for that type in the
> list of types you will allow.
> 
> The way you provided would need it
> to allow a list of types or I would need
> to keep filtering so there might be a
> faster way but I am not sure.
> 
> Thank you for the reply and code advice.
> 
> John Balgenorth
> 
> 
> On Sep 1, 2014, at 1:24 PM, Martin Koob <mkoob at rogers.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I think you can use the filter command with a wildcard and your extension. 
>> Put your folder path into tMyFolderPath then:
>> 
>> set the folder to tMyFolderPath
>> put the files into theFiles
>> filter theFiles with "*.jpg"
>> 
>> Martin
>> 
>> 
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