Filtering FIle Types

[JB]

That looks like what i need!!

Thank you very much!

John Balgenorth


On Sep 2, 2014, at 10:50 AM, Peter M. Brigham <pmbrig at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here's an expanded version -- feed it a list of filetypes and get them all at once:
> 
> function filterByType pFileList, pTypeList
>   -- assuming pTypeList is of the form "jpg,png,gif" (for instance)
>   repeat for each item t in pTypeList
>      put pFileList into workingList
>      filter workingList by ("*." & t)
>      put workingList & cr after outList
>   end repeat
>   return char 1 to -2 of outList
> end filterByType
> 
> -- Peter
> 
> Peter M. Brigham
> pmbrig at gmail.com
> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
> 
> 
> On Sep 2, 2014, at 1:14 PM, JB wrote:
> 
>> 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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