Working with directories/files

[jadamburke]

the getFileList mel command requires the -folder string to END in with a slash like this "c:/winnt/syetem/"

"c:/winnt/system" won't work.

It took me a few stressful hours to figure that one out when I first encountered it.

[strarup]

Hi Mike,

it's because you are calling/executing 2 commands... one command within the other... if you want to do something like that to reduce the lines of code instead of defining a string variable holding the folder name... you can use the Eval command...


string $daScripts[] =eval("getFileList -folder `internalVar -userScriptDir` -filespec \"*.mel\"");


otherwise you can use the text variable...

string $daFolder = `internalVar -userScriptDir`;
string $daScripts = `getFileList -folder $daFolder -filespec "*.mel"`;


however you can also put it into an one line function you can reuse in you scripts... e.g. like this... :)

global proc string[] daUserScripts()
{
return eval("getFileList -folder `internalVar -userScriptDir` -filespec \"*.mel\"");
}


and then in your scripts write it as follows...

string $daScripts[] = `daUserScripts`;


hope that helps... :)

regards

Alex

[frogspasm]

Starup, that was the ticket.
I just finished my script. I'm rendering out a couple of hundred cars each with a different texture map. This is going to save me alot of time.

Thanks guys!

~Mike D.

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