Filtering FIle Types

[JB]

Thank you for the reply and code.

If I call it for every type I want then
I will need to splice it back together
with the other types I filtered after I
am done calling for each type.

I guess there comes a point when I
have added a certain amount of types
it will be faster to do one line at a time.

Thank you for the code!

John Balgenorth


On Sep 2, 2014, at 5:17 AM, Peter M. Brigham <pmbrig at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> pmbrig at gmail.com
> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
> 
> 
> 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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