[REBOL] Re: Strange behavior for dirs and files
From: greggirwin:mindspring at: 22-Feb-2003 11:16
Hi Robert,
RMM> Hi, I have the following code snippet which is part of an IOS (link-app)
RMM> Reblet:
RMM> ;read in current directory
RMM> cd: read this-folder
RMM> ; filter out all directories
RMM> dirs: make block! []
RMM> foreach entry cd [probe reduce [entry type? entry dir? entry file?
RMM> entry] if dir? entry [append dirs entry]]
RMM> ?? dirs
RMM> Why does dir? Return false for all entries? I really don't have a clue
RMM> what's up.
Is %documents/ the current directory (i.e. what WHAT-DIR returns)? If
not, that would explain it I think. If you don't have a fully
qualified path for a file, REBOL uses the current directory when
checking things.
-- Gregg
