Re: How to tell if a file path is just the path or includes a file name

2018-10-10 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Duh, you are right. No loop is needed for what I want! function isPath pSomePath   set itemDel to slash   if there is not a folder pSomePath then     -- remove the last item and try again     delete last item of pSomePath     if there is not a folder pSomePath then    return false -- neither t

Re: How to tell if a file path is just the path or includes a file name

2018-10-10 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
there is a folder returns false on Mac if it's a file. Unless the file is a bundle (app). A Mac app is in fact a folder that has been flagged as an application. Looking at your code, are you trying to extract the paths to all the files, or determine which are folders inside a given path? If yo

How to tell if a file path is just the path or includes a file name

2018-10-10 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Lets say you have a bunch of file paths - some are just paths (all folders) and some end in a file name (and the file may or may not exist). i.e. /Folder1/Folder2/Folder3 /Folder1/AnotherFolder/Somefile.txt /Folder1/Folder2/Folderwith.intheName How would you test to tell whether a given record is j