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Re: Distinguish between Directory and File
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Re: Distinguish between Directory and File


  • Subject: Re: Distinguish between Directory and File
  • From: glenn andreas <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:07:05 -0500


On Oct 3, 2007, at 4:00 PM, Dani wrote:

isDirectory is always set to YES even if it's a file and not a directory. I don't know why. Here's the code:

- (NSArray *)listFilesInFolder:(NSString *)apath
{
NSArray *filesList;
NSMutableArray *onlyFiles;
NSString *path;
BOOL isDir;
int i;

NSDirectoryEnumerator *direnum = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] enumeratorAtPath:apath];
filesList = [direnum allObjects];

[self llistarArray:filesList];

for (i=0;i<[filesList count];i++)
{
path = [filesList objectAtIndex:i];
[[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:path isDirectory:&isDir];

if (isDir==false)
{
[onlyFiles addObject:[filesList objectAtIndex:i]];
}
}


	return filesList;
}


In theory in the onlyFiles NSMutableArray should be only files.



The problem is that enumeratorAtPath returns an enumerator that is a "rooted" in the given path. Asking for all objects (which, if you have an enumerator already and are then going to iterate over it is wasteful - you should just use the enumerator iteration methods btw) will return relative paths. Asking "existsAtPath" is actually going to return "NO" since that expects full paths - and as a result, isDir is never changed from the garbage value it had to start with (which happened to be 0).

So instead, something like this:

NSDirectoryEnumerator *direnum = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] enumeratorAtPath:apath];
NSString *subpath;
while ((subpath = [direnum nextObject]) != nil) {
NSString *fullPath = [apath stringByAppendingPathComponent: subpath];
if ([[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath: fullPath isDirectory: &isDir] == YES && isDir == YES) {
[onlyFiles addObject: fullPath]; // or subpath if you only want relative sub-paths
}
}





Glenn Andreas email@hidden
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