Description

Reads a directory for files and passes them to a string array. Users can set the file type by passing a file extension as a string.

Syntax

SFiles[] directory SDirectory[, SExtention]

Initialization

SDirectory -- a string that identifies the directory to browse for files

SExtention -- Optional. Sets the desired file type. If left out, all files names will be retrieved.

Performance

SFiles[] -- a string array that holds the names of all files of a given type found in the directory.

Example

This example shows how directory can be used to browse for .wav files in a fixed location. printf_i is then used to print the file names. It uses the file directory.csd.

<CsoundSynthesizer>
<CsOptions>
-n
</CsOptions>
<CsInstruments>

;browse for text files in current directory
instr 1
iCnt init 0
SFilenames[] directory ".", ".txt"
iNumberOfFiles lenarray SFilenames

until iCnt>=iNumberOfFiles do
	printf_i "Filename = %s \n", 1, SFilenames[iCnt]
	iCnt = iCnt+1
od
endin

</CsInstruments>
<CsScore>
i1 0 1
</CsScore>
</CsoundSynthesizer>

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