Introduction


T
his book shows how to recursively scan a directory tree. Since the "DIR$" command cannot be nested a simple recursive call to the scanning function is not possible. So it is a good idea to store all found sub-directories in an array and process them seperately after the current directory has been entirely scanned.
Scanning a directory tree


T
his program expects a starting directory (path) as command line argument. Then it will show the number of files and directories in that directory and all sub-directories. 

'Author     : Daniel, Master Sourcerer at Kitana's Cas...
'Last change: July 27, 2004
'Email      : sourcerer@kitana.org


'Recursively scans a directory tree

#DIM ALL


%MAXDIRS = 256


'Scan a directory and all of its sub-directories
SUB SCANDIR(P$)
  LOCAL F$
  LOCAL I&
  LOCAL NFILES&,NDIRS&
  LOCAL D$()
  DIM D$(%MAXDIRS-1)

  'scan directory
  F$=DIR$(P$+"*.*",23)
  WHILE F$<>""
    IF (GETATTR(P$+F$) AND 16)=0 THEN  'a file
      NFILES&=NFILES&+1
    ELSE                               'a directory
      IF F$<>"." AND F$<>".."THEN      'ignore up-director...
        IF NDIRS&<%MAXDIRS THEN
          D$(NDIRS&)=F$
          NDIRS&=NDIRS&+1
        END IF
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