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ANSI Standard PL/B Language and Visual PL/B

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FINDFILE:    -    This is a SUNBELT ONLY language feature.

CONCEPT OF USE

The FINDFILE instruction provides a fast way of gathering information about a fail such as the size, path, date updated, and attributes.

This is a very simple instruction. You just code FINDFILE {filename}, FILESIZE=xxxx and the information is returned.

The file does not have to be opened.

Wild cards are accepted in the file name.

There's a general routine in the MMCCSERV.PLS include unit and there are work fields defined in COMMONWK.PLS as follows:

COMMONWK.PLS fields:
$FF_NAME       DIM   250    ;pass this name in or clear yourself
$FF_DATA LIST
$FF_ERROR      DIM     5
$FF_SIZE       FORM   10
$FF_TIMESTAMP  DIM    18
$FF_ALTNAME    DIM   250
$FF_ATTRIBUTES INTEGER 4
$FF_PATH       DIM   250
$FF_ALTPATH    DIM   250
         LISTEND
MMCCSERV.PLS routine:
find_file ROUTINE  $FF_NAME
         DISPLAY   *COLOR COL$10,*EL:
                   "MMCCSERV:find file ",*HON,*LL,$FF_NAME,*HOFF:
                   *COLOR COL$POP
         UNPACK    NUL, $FF_DATA            ;all but $FF_NAME
         FINDFILE  $FF_NAME:
                      FILESIZE=$FF_SIZE:
                      WRITE=$FF_TIMESTAMP:
                      NAME=$FF_NAME:
                      ALTNAME=$FF_ALTNAME:
                      ATTRIBUTES=$FF_ATTRIBUTES:
                      PATH=$FF_PATH:
                      ALTPATH=$FF_ALTPATH
         IF NOT ZERO
             MOVE  "FAIL",$FF_ERROR
         ENDIF
         RETURN

NOTES

FINDFILE requires the FULL PATH and NAME for the file. If you have just opened the file and want to use FINDFILE to get stuff line the date and size, you'll need to get the path another way. For that you can use GETFILE with the TXTNAME property. This is the full name and path.
   ...........................
   .   Example
   .
   MYFILE     FILE
   FILENAME   DIM   250
       OPEN        MYFILE, "ZZDATA"
       GETFILE     MYFILE, TXTNAME=FILENAME
       IF ZERO
           DISPLAY "File name is ",*HON,*LL,FILENAME,*PL,*HOFF
         ELSE
           DISPLAY "File is NOT OPEN"
       ENDIF
See GETFILE in the FILE HANDLING NOTES report.


FINDDIR

From a discussion on the Sunbelt Forum 4/20/2011

From Gerhard Weiss       BeneSys, Inc
FINDDIR is nice. I used it once.

In another post I wrote that I want to use COPYFILE with wildcards. This is not available and instead FINDDIR needs to be used to get the filename and then build a COPYFILE command for each file.

The only limitation, I see, is you have to know how big the FINDDIR Destination String needs to be.

Is there a way to calculate this size?

I am also thinking DMAKE should be used to create the Destination String. This way the variable can be created and freed so it is not taking up that much memory when it is done.

I no one ever used the FINDDIR before, here is the code I wrote a few months back that returns directory names for pattern F:\CLS*.

CLSPAT    INIT        "F:\CLS*"
CLSALLDIR DIM      ^3000
CLSALLIN  FORM      2
CLSALLLS  FORM      2
CLSALLMX  CONST     "30"
CLSALLTB  DIM       20(CLSALLMX)
CLSEXIST  DIM       1(CLSALLMX)
           FINDDIR   CLSPAT,CLSALLDIR,MODE=4,ITEMCOUNT=CLSALLLS
		   EXPLODE   CLSALLDIR,"|",CLSALLTB
           FOR       CLSALLIN FROM "1" TO CLSALLLS
		      SDELETE   CLSALLTB(CLSALLIN),N1
              MOVE      "F:\",D3
              SINSERT   CLSALLTB(CLSALLIN),D3
              RESET     CLSALLTB(CLSALLIN)
.
              DISPLAY   "FINDDIR ",CLSALLTB(CLSALLIN)
           REPEAT
.
.... If run today, it would return these directories on our system:

F:\CLS 
F:\CLS_20110131
F:\CLS_20110228
F:\CLS_20110331 

From Stuart Elliott       CenterStone, Inc
This is what I do all the time:
sFNlist   dim   ^100
filename  dim    260
filename1 dim    260
filename2 dim    260
nwork12   form    12

    pack filename with "c:\data\*.*"
    move      n0 to nwork12
    loop
      add     "100" to nwork12    // make it bigger
      dfree   sFNlist             // reset DIM
      dmake   sFNlist,nwork12     // make the target DIM
      finddir filename to sFNlist,mode=2
    repeat while ( eos )          // target DIM not big enough; try again 


Then, to process the filename list:
    loop
      explode  sFNlist by "|" into filename
      fsave
      splice   "",filename,1            // remove leading 'f'
      pack     filename1 with "c:\data\",filename
      pack     filename2 with "\\server\folder\",filename
      copyfile filename1,filename2
      frestore
    repeat until ( zero ) 
From R. Leidy       Norman, Oklahoma
This alternative has it's own pros and cons, but the old datalist object has a method named Dir. You can use wildcards in the *fileSpec= parameter, and some other options in the *flags= parameter. The benefit is you don't have to pre-allocate memory/dim for the result, every file will just be another line in the datalist.







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