FindFile function

[Dutchman]

I needed a function that can find a file in a folder.
I made FindFile$(Dir$, Search$, Ext$, Upsort)
• Searches file in folder 'Dir$' which name contains 'Search$' and ends with 'Ext$'.
• Search is case-insensitive
• It returns the latest matching name from the sorted folder listing
• Upsort = 1 results in Ascending sort, Upsort = 0 in Descending
The following code includes the test program:

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'Find file.sb by Dutchman, November 2018
'
'==== test variables
In$="Fractal" ' part of filename
Last$="txt" ' extension
Folder$="/Examples/Games" ' folder where to search

'==== Main
File$=FindFile$(Folder$,In$,Last$,1)
IF File$<>"" THEN
  PRINT "Found in ascending order: """&File$&"""." 
  File$=FindFile$(Folder$,In$,Last$,0)
  PRINT "Found in descending order: """&File$&"""." 
ELSE
  PRINT "No match found."
ENDIF
END

'=========== Function ===========
DEF FindFile$(Dir$,Search$,Ext$,Upsort) ' by Dutchman
'Search is case-insensitive
'Searches file in folder 'Dir$'
'   which name contains 'Search$'
'     and ends with 'Ext$'.
'It returns the latest matching name
'  from the sorted folder-listing
'Upsort=1 is Ascending, Upsort=0 is Descending
ob=OPTION_BASE()
Search$=LOWSTR$(Search$)
Ext$=LOWSTR$(REVERSE$(Ext$))'reverse search
IF Dir$="" THEN Dir$="."
File$=""
DIR Dir$ LIST FILES A$,n
OPTION SORT INSENSITIVE
IF Upsort THEN OPTION SORT ASCENDING ELSE OPTION SORT DESCENDING
SORT A$
FOR i=ob TO n-1+ob
  IF INSTR(LOWSTR$(a$(i)),Search$,ob)>=ob THEN
    IF Ext$<>"" THEN
      IF INSTR(LOWSTR$(REVERSE$(a$(i))),Ext$)=ob THEN File$=a$(i)
    ELSE ! File$=a$(i) ! ENDIF
  ENDIF
NEXT i
OPTION BASE ob
RETURN File$
END DEF

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[rbytes]

It is getting harder to remember where I put files. That could be a sign of advancing age, or just that my files and folders never stop increasing! This is a much-needed tool. Now if I can just remember what I named them!

[GeorgeMcGinn]

No, it's not old age. I don't know how many files I have that have more than one copy, but my documents and data size is 2.03GB!

I know that I have multiple copies of many programs (I re downloaded a lot just in case Mr. K. does go ahead and removes Dropbox access), I wanted to make sure most if not all my code is on my iPad. I still back everything to Dropbox as I have my alternates to Dropbox working (I have more than one place to save code, and for some of my Stackflow posts, I added a way to just capture other people's code).

It is not polished as when I presented this 4 times in the forum, no one cared to respond with suggestions or priorities to what I should provide, or even if they wanted this system!

This is something I was currently adding to the new version of your File Compare program (you input the whole or partial file name, it creates a file with the entire path and file name). Right now I'm looking at whether it makes sense to have the compare run all Files and produce a report, or allow you to select two files and run them.

I'll look at this tool as it also sounds what I need to get control of my files.

Thanks Ton for posting this program.

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It is getting harder to remember where I put files. That could be a sign of advancing age, or just that my files and folders never stop increasing! This is a much-needed tool. Now if I can just remember what I named them!