On 18 May 2009, at 08:18, Brad Campbell wrote:
In this application I'm populating a stringlist with a list of files in a directory with a specific extension, but of course I've just realised that the case of that extension is tripping me up. Is there a better way to achieve what I want in a cross platform manner while retaining the case insensitivity?
The only way is reading the entire directory in memory, and then performing your own case-insensitive search on that. The compiler does the same (see compiler/cfileutl.pas -- or do not look at it, depending on the license of your program, since that code is GPL). The big downside of this approach is that it can introduce very noticeable delays in your program's operation when working on networked file systems (especially if there are lots of files in a directory).
I think the only real solution is accept that different OSes do not behave exactly the same, as this will by no means be the only difference they'll encounter. You will not be able to "fix" all of them, unless you start really emulating one OS on top of the others (in which case you'll alienate the "native" users of that platform). And almost every single one of those changes will make your program slower, harder to maintain and harder to port.
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