On 12/31/2012 08:11 AM, RollingCat wrote:
Hi there. I'm new to D language and make a simple software monitoring
new file with specified extension.

class FileList
{
str_CurrentDir;
bool ReturnMatchedFile(string str_arg_filename, string str_Extension)
{
return endsWith(str_arg_filename, '.'~str_Extension);
}

void GetCurrentList(string str_arg_Extension)
{
auto filter_CurrentList=filter!ReturnMatchedFile(str_arg_Extension,
dirEntries(str_CurrentDir, SpanMode.shallow));
}
}

with this FileList class, after making instance of FileList and
assigning str_CurrentDir variable, when I call GetCurrentList("d"), it
says that std.algorithm.filter! ~~ does not match any function template
declaration.
OK. So I modified above code like below just for a test.

class FileList
{
str_CurrentDir;
bool ReturnMatchedFile(string str_arg_filename)
{
return endsWith(str_arg_filename, ".d");
}

void GetCurrentList()
{
auto
filter_CurrentList=filter!ReturnMatchedFile(dirEntries(str_CurrentDir,
SpanMode.shallow));
}
}

And it says that
this for ReturnMatchedFile needs to be type FileList not type
FileResult!(ReturnMatchedFile, DirIterator).
I can't understand it!

Anyway, to solve the problem, again, I modified above code like below.

static bool ReturnMatchedFile(string str_arg_filename)
{
return endsWith(str_arg_filename, ".d");
}

class FileList
{
str_CurrentDir;

void GetCurrentList()
{
auto
filter_CurrentList=filter!ReturnMatchedFile(dirEntries(str_CurrentDir,
SpanMode.shallow));
}
}

and it works.

What is the problem?

Best regards and happy new year! :)

It is very helpful to see complete code. If I guessed it right, the following works:

import std.algorithm;
import std.file;

class FileList
{
    string str_CurrentDir;

    bool ReturnMatchedFile(string str_arg_filename, string str_Extension)
    {
        return endsWith(str_arg_filename, '.'~str_Extension);
    }

    void GetCurrentList(string str_arg_Extension)
    {
        auto filter_CurrentList =
            filter!(a => ReturnMatchedFile(a, str_arg_Extension))
                (dirEntries(str_CurrentDir, SpanMode.shallow));
    }
}

void main()
{
    auto f = new FileList();
}

The problem was that you did not provide the template argument parentheses to filter. You can omit them only if there is only one word.

I have used the lambda syntax as described here:

  http://dlang.org/expression.html#Lambda

Each element of dirEntries() appears to the lambda as its 'a' parameter. That parameter is then applied to the right-hand side of the => operator.

Unrelated to the question, I recommend that you don't use prefixes like 'str_' and 'arg_'; they make the code harder to read. For example, I would like 'desired_extension' better than 'str_arg_Extension', because it would carry its meaning better.

Also, predicates like ReturnMatchedFile() are usually named like hasMatchingExtension().

Ali

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