[DUG] Grouping files

[Jeremy Coulter]

Think you got the wrong idea Ross. I am SEARCHING FOR zip files, not 
searching them....well I WILL be searching them when I have isolated the 
files I need, but this will be done via a VCL control.

Jeremy


-----Original Message-----
From: "Ross Levis" <ross at stationplaylist.com>
To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List" <delphi at ns3.123.co.nz>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:35:51 +1200
Subject: Re: [DUG] Grouping files


I don't think dir works with ZIP files.  I would be surprised 
FindFirst/FindNext worked with zip files.  So how did you get a TSearchRec 
containing files within a zip file?
 
Ross.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: KuetFung.Chong at sungard.com 
To: delphi at ns3.123.co.nz 
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 12:28 PM
Subject: RE: [DUG] Grouping files


Not sure this will be faster or easier:
 
Execute the DOS command
 
dir /a-d /od /tc > files.txt
 
Read "files.txt" to get the list of files you want - not pretty but 
possible.
 
Cheers,
Kuet-Fung
 
-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz]On 
Behalf Of Jeremy Coulter
Sent: Thursday, 22 September 2005 11:41
To: delphi at delphi.org.nz
Subject: [DUG] Grouping files


Hi All.
I have been given a request that means I need to look inside some zip files 
in an archived dir we have.
I only need to look at certain files within a certain file date range BUT, 
we unfortunitly have over 7700 files in this dir !!!! I know, I know....but 
this is only a couple of mnths worth of files ! so we kinda have to live 
with.
 
Is there a way to "Group" files togeither so that when I do a TSearchRec 
search, the files are in decending order of date?
Then, I can look at the file date and if its not within the range, I can 
stop the searchrec.....I hope you understand what I mean.
 
I thought about loading the files into an array, and sorting them on date 
then getting rid of the ones I dont need or as it loops thru, just ignore 
the ones I dont want, but this is just as slow as doing a SearchRec.
 
anyone got any ideas?
 
Jeremy
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