Re: filtype() Problems

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the help. For now I have found a work around. For some reason this is only effecting some of the files and not any directories. So, instead of using filetyp()=='file' it dawned on me to use !='dir'. That seems to work fine for my needs.

But you're right about error messaging, as you can tell I'm still new at this so I will have to investigate turning this on today.

With that said, this is completely baffling. For the files that don't produce a type I don't see anything printed to the screen. Maybe a NULL value is returned? I wonder if I can check that? But it gets stranger.

At first I thought it was a problem with my for loop. But if I "copy" the files that do give a type, and place the copies in the same directory (i.e. "file.txt" copied to "copy_file.txt"), they DO give a type. So it's not the loop.

I've tried this on a Mac, Windows IIS and Linux, so strange. But I'll see what I find in the error logs.

Again, thanks for the help,

Kevin



Jeff Johns wrote: 
Are you not getting anything in return for the files that do not
produce a type?

From the manual: 
"Returns FALSE if an error occurs. filetype() will also produce an
E_NOTICE message if the stat call fails or if the file type is
unknown."

Set your error reporting for the script to report all errors to try an
pinpoint what is happening. It is hard to tell not seeing the rest of
the script and your filesystem.

.

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