Re: FileManipulation
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- Subject: [mg15060] Re: FileManipulation
- From: "Dale Horton" <daleh>
- Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 04:12:39 -0500
- Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
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It appears to be related to $HomeDirectory.
In[1]:=
FileNames["*",{$HomeDirectory}]
has "\\\\"
In[2]:=
FileNames["*",{$TopDirectory}]
has "\\"
-Dale
Jason Gill wrote in message <7430ql$n01 at smc.vnet.net>...
>I encountered an interesting behavior running 3.1 on Win 95. When using
>the functions filenames to generate a list of files and then attempting
>to use that list within a function results in a "out to lunch error".
> The example I am using is
>In:
>all = FileNames[*,$HomeDirectory,1]; Out:
>{c:\\95drive,c:\\autoexec.bat, etc.} However attempting to
>
>Map[FileType,all]
>
>sends the kernel out never to return.
>
>On futher investigation,
>In:
>FullForm[all[[1]]]
>Out:
>"c:\\\\95drive"
>
>It appears that Mathematica perpetually adds backslashes. That is if I
>take the a original version of "all" and manually stirp away the second
>backslash, Mapping FileType works as expected. I am not sure what is
>causing this behavior, or how to correct it without manually removing
>the extra backslash in FileNames.
>
>I suspect I am not describing the problem very clearly, but the problem
>is based on an example Given in the Mathematica book, page 15, where I
>have substituted FileType for FileByteCount.
>
>Anyways, It is not a very critical application, I was just wondering if
>anyone else has encountered it, or more importantly why is it doing it?
>
>Thanks,
>Jason
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