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RenameDirectory()
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 6:38 am
by PB Fanatic
I can't believe this command doesn't exist after all these years!
And how do we do it in the meantime? A search for "rename directory" comes up with 0 relevant results.
Re: RenameDirectory()
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 7:07 am
by Marc56us
PB Fanatic wrote:And how do we do it in the meantime? A search for "rename directory" comes up with 0 relevant results.
Hello,
Use the keyword
folder, instead of
directory for search
http://www.purebasic.com/documentation/ ... efile.html
[...]This function can also be used to rename/move directories.[...]
Re: RenameDirectory()
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 7:58 am
by PB Fanatic
Marc56us wrote:Use the keyword folder, instead of directory
What the? We have CreateDirectory, CopyDirectory, DeleteDirectory... but not RenameDirectory.
So searching for "directory" is therefore a totally logical thing to do, as opposed to searching for "folder".
Thanks for pointing it out, though.
Re: RenameDirectory()
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 6:57 pm
by Little John
PB Fanatic wrote:What the? We have CreateDirectory, CopyDirectory, DeleteDirectory... but not RenameDirectory.
So searching for "directory" is therefore a totally logical thing to do
I agree.
So open the English help file, click at the "Search" tab, and then enter
rename directory
As result, the topic titled
RenameFile() will be listed, which contains the following sentence:
This function can also be used to rename/move directories.
Voilà!
Re: RenameDirectory()
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 11:20 am
by PB Fanatic
It would be better just to have a new command called RenameDirectory() that works.
Re: RenameDirectory()
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 11:26 am
by Bisonte
make it by your own :
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Procedure RenameDirectory(OldName.s, NewName.s)
ProcedureReturn RenameFile(OldName, NewName)
EndProcedure
or with a macro....
Re: RenameDirectory()
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 1:21 pm
by PB Fanatic
A procedure or macro that wraps RenameFile() simply doesn't work:
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Macro RenameDirectory(old,new)
RenameFile(old,new)
EndMacro
old$=GetTemporaryDirectory()+"old"
Debug CreateDirectory(old$) ; 1 - Okay
Debug RenameDirectory(old$,"new") ; 0 - Fails
Re: RenameDirectory()
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 2:04 pm
by Shardik
PB Fanatic wrote:A procedure or macro that wraps RenameFile() simply doesn't work
It works quite fine when doing it right...
You have to specify the complete path to your renamed directory. On my old Windows XP SP3 even your example works fine but probably not as expected by you: it renamed the directory "old" and moved it to C:\new. If you are not allowed to write to the C:\ root directory you will obtain a return code of 0.
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Macro RenameDirectory(old,new)
RenameFile(old,new)
EndMacro
old$=GetTemporaryDirectory()+"old"
Debug CreateDirectory(old$) ; 1 - Okay
Debug RenameDirectory(old$,GetTemporaryDirectory()+"new") ; 1 - Okay
Re: RenameDirectory()
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 3:08 pm
by PB Fanatic
Oops!
Re: RenameDirectory()
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 4:18 pm
by Little John
PB Fanatic wrote:A procedure or macro that wraps RenameFile() simply doesn't work:
Small addition to Shardik's post:
You have
always to use proper names, regardless whether you use
RenameFile() directly, or whether you wrap it in a macro.
So any problem with a path or file/directory name that you encounter in this context, has nothing got to do with the macro itself.