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Re: re-post of a simple question

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Subject: Re: re-post of a simple question
From: "Joseph J. Strout" <joe at realsoftware dot com>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:39:01 -0600
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At 10:16 AM -0600 3/31/05, Ben Scofield wrote:

Hey all! Thanks for the quick responses. Those were all somewhat what I was looking for, BUT, I forgot to mention that I found plenty of examples for opening a file when it was selected from a dialogue box. What I need to do is loop through a given folder (path specified as a windows system variable) and open the files in that path. There won't be a dialogue box to work with.

That doesn't matter. We've already given you examples where no dialog box was involved (e.g. PreferencesFolder.Child("foo") or GetFolderItem("bar")).

Looping through a folder's items looks like this:

  Dim i As Integer
  Dim f As FolderItem
  for i = 1 to myFolder.Count
    f = myFolder.Item(i)
    DoSomethingWith f
  next

where DoSomethingWith is a subroutine that takes a FolderItem.

So in short, how about an example of reading a file line by line that there has been no user interaction to open, all I have is a path?

Reading it line by line is doing something with it -- that's entirely independent of where the FolderItem came from, so the examples in the language reference (under TextInputStream) should work just fine.

And note that you do NOT start with a path. Paths are evil. Work entirely with FolderItems.

Best,
- Joe

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