[haXe] what is the use of FileKind, FileSystem.kind( path )

[Michel Oster]

Juan Delgado wrote :

> About searching for files in the hard disk, I have no idea but I'm
> interested too!

Hi,
your question woke me up.  ;-)

    import neko.FileSystem;
    var ext = 'png';
    getFiles( ext );

    function getFiles(ext: String): Array<String> {
        //note : to use this function, Neko must previously set the 
working folder ( setCwd( path.dir ) )
        ext = '.' + ext;
        var end = ext.length;
        var aFileNames = neko.FileSystem.readDirectory( path.dir );
        var i = 0;
        while( i < aFileNames.length ) {
            var out = true;
            var fileName = aFileNames[i];
            if( FileSystem.kind( fileName ) == neko.FileKind.kfile ) {  
//<- if it is a file
                var len = fileName.length - end;
                //only files with minimum 1 character length AND having 
the extension '.ext' :
                if( len > 0 && len == fileName.lastIndexOf( ext ) ) out 
= false;
            }
            if( out ) aFileNames.remove( fileName );
            else i++;
        }
        return aFileNames;
    }

Michel