Re: Accessing information returned from 'dir'

[Etienne Grossmann]

  Hi All,

problem confirmed w/ 2.1.57, Debian GNU/Linux.

  Workaround :

    octave:77> {a.name}{2}
    ans = ..
    octave:78> typeinfo({a.name}{2})
    ans = string

Hth,

  Etienne

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 02:20:05PM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
# How does one access the information returned from a dir-command? After
# issuing
# 
#     a=dir("./");
# 
# I can do
# 
#     a.name
# 
# or
# 
#     a.bytes
# 
# but any attempt to retrieve the information *within* a.name failed.
# a.name[1] returns a syntax error, a.name(1) or a.name{1} return 'can't
# perform indexing operations for cs-list type', nth(a.name, 1) returns the
# help text of nth().
# 
# I know I can circumvent the problem by using readdir() and then lstat()ing
# the names myself, but I figured there has to be a way to Do What I Want
# :-). Can someone please help me out?
# 
# 
# Kind regards,
# Maarten
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