[stat] just returns info about one file.  You can get a listing of files [folder_list] based on a glob pattern like *.mov.  I am planning on changing it to [file/match] that will act like [qlist] in that you bang to get a new filename, then it'll bang when end of the file listing is reached.

.hc



On Jun 14, 2006, at 8:27 AM, chris clepper wrote:

Is there a way to get a random file of a certain type (like .mov) from a specific directory using your objects?

cgc

On 6/14/06, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@eds.org> wrote:

http://at.or.at/hans/pd/objects.html

Another libc port: stat. It lets you get all sorts of data from a
file. Quite handy for a number of things, like testing what kind of
file something is, or get the time of the last access, status change,
or modification. Should work on all platforms.

Also included is [file_type] object which is written in Pd and uses
[stat].  It tells you what kind of file something is (file, folder,
character, block, fifo, etc).

Of course, it'll be in the next Pd-extended test release.

.hc

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