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Volhout
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Posted: 09:05am 11 Jul 2025

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Hi javavi,

I think now you have 2 string arrays that hold the file names.
My idea is that you include the file size as "text" into the string, aligned to the right.

example "filename.ext 12340"

Then you do not have to reserve extra memory.

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thwill

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Posted: 10:36am 11 Jul 2025

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javavi said

That's why I'm asking for help in making a procedure for searching for a file by template starting from the current folder including all nested ones?

Perhaps file.find() in https://github.com/thwill1000/mmbasic-sptools/blob/master/src/splib/file.inc but that does mean grokking my idiosyncratic BASIC code.

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Posted: 09:06pm 11 Jul 2025

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javavi said ... a procedure for searching for a file by template starting from the current folder including all nested ones?

Hi Vadim,
nice to hear from you again. I'm glad you're keeping up!
Do you mean something like this:

findfile.zip

The disadvantage is the large memory requirement if you don't limit the maximum number of finds. Perhaps you could also output the data page by page, then the screen would be the memory, so to speak.

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Michael

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javavi

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Posted: 04:22am 12 Jul 2025

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Hi Volhout,

Volhout said I think now you have 2 string arrays that hold the file names.
My idea is that you include the file size as "text" into the string, aligned to the right.
example "filename.ext 12340"
Then you do not have to reserve extra memory.

And this is an interesting idea!
At first I thought that it is not suitable, since the lines from the file list array are needed not only for display on panels, but also as data in operations.
But then I realized that you can patch the lines with binary data from the end without breaking their string content!
And so, to a 63-character line I can add a 32-bit File Size WORD at the end, plus one more byte of File Attribute, and my File Name field will be reduced from 63 to 58 characters, which I think is not critical!
But all this information can be stored in one File List array.

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