On 2026-09-13 17:22, Bart via fpc-pascal wrote:
Hi,

Just curious.

Given a situation where FindFirst/FindNext returns 0 (=succes), under
which circumstance can the TSearchRec.Name become an empty string?

I'm asking because we have code in our codebase (fpc/lazarus) like:

=======
  if FindFirst(CurSrcDir+AllFilesMask,DeleteMask,FileInfo)=0 then
    Try
      repeat
        // check if special file
        if (FileInfo.Name='.') or (FileInfo.Name='..') or
(FileInfo.Name='') then
          continue;
========

Never saw that on Windows or Linux, but since fpc supports more
platforms, maybe some of them may return an ampty string for
TSearchRec.Name?

I don't pretend knowing behaviour of all platforms supported by FPC, but I don't think that it should happen. However, you don't show the end of the repeat until cycle - depending on the exact condition there, the check might be relevant for the repetitions (not that I'd expect it, just for completeness sake).

Tomas
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