readdir() order

Hi,

I want to have all files of a directory listed in a certain order (best
would be alphabetically). I get the files with:

while ($file = readdir ($handle)) {
...
}

Now I don't see any order... The server is a Linux box. I know I can put the
filenames into an array and sort it. But is there a way the readdir()
command can sort for me?


Tim

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Whilst lounging around on Sat, 12 Jul 2003 01:16:13 +0200, Tim
Hussein <aladdin@bigfoot.de> amazingly managed to produce the
following with their Etch-A-Sketch:

> Hi,
>
> I want to have all files of a directory listed in a certain order
> (best would be alphabetically). I get the files with:
>
> while ($file = readdir ($handle)) {
> ...
> }
>
> Now I don't see any order... The server is a Linux box. I know I
> can put the filenames into an array and sort it. But is there a way
> the readdir() command can sort for me?
>
>
> Tim


Tim,

Not AFAIK.

Bizarrely(?) readdir() sorts on a windoze box (for whatever reason
unknown to me). The only method I have come up with for *nix boxes is
an array method.



Regards,

Ian

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On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 23:40:31 GMT, "Ian.H [dS]" <ian@WINDOZEdigiserv.net> wrote:

>Bizarrely(?) readdir() sorts on a windoze box (for whatever reason
>unknown to me).

NTFS apparently uses a B-Tree for directory entries, so they'll come out
sorted.

If you used it on a FAT32 partition, the ordering would (probably) be random á
la Unix.

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Whilst lounging around on Sat, 12 Jul 2003 01:46:28 +0100, Andy
Hassall <andy@andyh.co.uk> amazingly managed to produce the following
with their Etch-A-Sketch:

> On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 23:40:31 GMT, "Ian.H [dS]"
> <ian@WINDOZEdigiserv.net> wrote:
>
> >Bizarrely(?) readdir() sorts on a windoze box (for whatever reason
> >unknown to me).
>
> NTFS apparently uses a B-Tree for directory entries, so they'll
> come out sorted.
>
> If you used it on a FAT32 partition, the ordering would (probably)
> be random á la Unix.


Ahhah! that would explain things somewhat Andy...

Thanks for the info =)



Regards,

Ian

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