>Hi all,
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>Back looking at the GetDirectoryTree() function - in the current one I have (based on code by Doug Hennig and Tamar), the code does a CD to change to the appropriate directory first (at least the code that I have - they might have improved it later). (it seems to me that "CD" is kinda a "klunky" way to do this).
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>But I thought, is there no way to get a list of directories using ADIR with also a file path as the "base" folder to start with? It seems not - not unless I have not yet figured out how to call ADIR()
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>This works (their code):
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>CD (tcBasePath)
>ADIR(laTest,[],"D")
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>These did not work (i.e. no change of directory first) as they always returned no folders or both the files and folders in that directory:
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>ADIR(laTest,"F:\Office\Templates","D")
>ADIR(laTest,"F:\Office\Templates\","D")
>ADIR(laTest,"F:\Office\Templates\*","D")
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>It seems as though ADIR() is not respecting the "D" argument - unless that means "folders in ADDITION to the files.
>

Here's what we said in the Hacker's Guide (and yes, we marked it with a bug icon):

In VFP 5 and earlier, you could get a list of sub-directories for a specified directory by passing the path and a single asterisk for the file name, like this:

ADIR(aSubDirs, cPath + "*", "D")

This approach doesn't work in VFP 6 and later—that call results in a list containing both files and directories. In those versions, you have to change to the directory of interest and then pass the empty string for the path, like this:

CD (cPath)
ADIR(aSubDirs, "", "D")

Tamar