• Open Menu Close Menu
  • Apple
  • Shopping Bag
  • Apple
  • Mac
  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • Watch
  • TV
  • Music
  • Support
  • Search apple.com
  • Shopping Bag

Lists

Open Menu Close Menu
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Lists hosted on this site
  • Email the Postmaster
  • Tips for posting to public mailing lists
Re: NSFileManager and directories
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: NSFileManager and directories


  • Subject: Re: NSFileManager and directories
  • From: Neil Earnshaw <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 09:26:07 +0100

This looks like the unambiguous way to determine if something is a directory:

fileExistsAtPath:isDirectory:



- (BOOL)fileExistsAtPath:(NSString *)path isDirectory:(BOOL *)isDirectory
Returns whether the file specified in path exists. If you want to determine if path is a directory, specify the address of a boolean variable for isDirectory; the method indirectly returns YES if path is a directory. If path begins with a tilde, it must first be expanded with stringByExpandingTildeInPath, or this method will return NO.The method traverses final symbolic links.

If you need to further determine if path is a package, use NSWorkspace's isFilePackageAtPath: .

This example gets an NSArray that identifies the fonts in /System/Library/Fonts:


NSArray *subpaths;
BOOL isDir;
NSString *fontPath = @"/System/Library/Fonts";
NSFileManager *manager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
if ([manager fileExistsAtPath:fontPath isDirectory:&isDir] && isDir)
subpaths = [manager subpathsAtPath:fontPath];



See Also: - fileExistsAtPath:

-Neil

On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 08:25 AM, Francisco Tolmasky wrote:

Is saying something like
NSArray *contents;
if(contents= [[NSFileManager defaultManager] directoryContentsAtPath: aPath])
//do directory stuff
else
//do file stuff

a safe way to tell if the object at "aPath" is a directory or not?

Francisco Tolmasky
email@hidden
http://users.adelphia.net/~ftolmasky
_______________________________________________
cocoa-dev mailing list | email@hidden
Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/cocoa-dev
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
_______________________________________________
cocoa-dev mailing list | email@hidden
Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/cocoa-dev
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.

References: 
 >NSFileManager and directories (From: Francisco Tolmasky <email@hidden>)

  • Prev by Date: Re: Newbie question: forcing data format during saveDocumentTo:
  • Next by Date: Re: NSFileManager and directories
  • Previous by thread: Re: NSFileManager and directories
  • Next by thread: Re: NSFileManager and directories
  • Index(es):
    • Date
    • Thread