Re: Any help gratefully appreciated

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2001


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 39791
interpreted = N
texte = It is not safe to delete files within a listfiles.When you use listfiles it counts all the files, so if you have 10 files, then delete one, listfiles still thinks you have 10, which is why they do not delete as you think they should.You need to use a temporary database or otherwise store the results of your listfiles, then take action based on the temp database.The files don't match as you have files named with .new and .old. You would need to strip that out before doing your comparison.Dale on 10/31/2001 4:35 PM, Laeg Ent. at laeg_enterprises@yahoo.co.uk wrote:> I have a folder called Orders > I have a file in this folder calld filelist.db > > I list the filenames in Orders and list the filenames > in filelist.db, if they do not match, I delete the > filename in filelist.db. Its that simple. However this > keeps happening > > Filenames in Orders= 1.old > 2.old > 3.old > 4.old > 5.old > 6.old > 7.old > 8.old > 9.old > 10.old > > Filenames in Orders/filelist.db= > 1.new > 2.new > 3.new > 4.new > 5.new > 6.new > 7.new > 8.new > 9.new > 10.new > > Therefore no filenames are equal delete them all so. > When I run the code it only deletes every second one > so 1,3,5,7,9 will be deleted and not the others > > that leaves 2,4,6,8,10 > > if I run it again, it will again take the second ones > > and delete 2,6,10 leaving 4,8 > > Why does it do this, this is the code: > > > [text]doDelete=[F][/text] > [search > db=orders/filelist.db&neFILENAMESdatarq=find_all&rank=on] > [founditems] > [listfiles orders] > [If [filenames]=[filename]] > [then] > [text]doDelete=[T][/text] > [/then] > [else] > [/else] > [/If] > [/listfiles] > [showif [doDelete]![T]] > [delete > db=orders/filelist.db&eqFILENAMESdatarq=[filenames]] > [FlushDatabases] > [/showif] > [text]doDelete=[F][/text] > [/founditems] > [/search] > Filelist database updated ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Any help gratefully appreciated (Rob Marquardt 2001)
  2. Re: Any help gratefully appreciated (Laeg Ent. 2001)
  3. Re: Any help gratefully appreciated (Rob Marquardt 2001)
  4. Re: Any help gratefully appreciated (dale 2001)
  5. Re: Any help gratefully appreciated (Laeg Ent. 2001)
  6. Re: Any help gratefully appreciated (Laeg Ent. 2001)
  7. Re: Any help gratefully appreciated (dale 2001)
  8. Any help gratefully appreciated (Laeg Ent. 2001)
It is not safe to delete files within a listfiles.When you use listfiles it counts all the files, so if you have 10 files, then delete one, listfiles still thinks you have 10, which is why they do not delete as you think they should.You need to use a temporary database or otherwise store the results of your listfiles, then take action based on the temp database.The files don't match as you have files named with .new and .old. You would need to strip that out before doing your comparison.Dale on 10/31/2001 4:35 PM, Laeg Ent. at laeg_enterprises@yahoo.co.uk wrote:> I have a folder called Orders > I have a file in this folder calld filelist.db > > I list the filenames in Orders and list the filenames > in filelist.db, if they do not match, I delete the > filename in filelist.db. Its that simple. However this > keeps happening > > Filenames in Orders= 1.old > 2.old > 3.old > 4.old > 5.old > 6.old > 7.old > 8.old > 9.old > 10.old > > Filenames in Orders/filelist.db= > 1.new > 2.new > 3.new > 4.new > 5.new > 6.new > 7.new > 8.new > 9.new > 10.new > > Therefore no filenames are equal delete them all so. > When I run the code it only deletes every second one > so 1,3,5,7,9 will be deleted and not the others > > that leaves 2,4,6,8,10 > > if I run it again, it will again take the second ones > > and delete 2,6,10 leaving 4,8 > > Why does it do this, this is the code: > > > [text]doDelete=[F][/text] > [search > db=orders/filelist.db&neFILENAMESdatarq=find_all&rank=on] > [founditems] > [listfiles orders] > [If [filenames]=[filename]] > [then] > [text]doDelete=[T][/text] > [/then] > [else] > [/else] > [/If] > [/listfiles] > [showif [doDelete]![T]] > [delete > db=orders/filelist.db&eqFILENAMESdatarq=[filenames]] > [flushdatabases] > [/showif] > [text]doDelete=[F][/text] > [/founditems] > [/search] > Filelist database updated ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ dale

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