Re: Opening an IFS Directory

[Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>]

Name as to be null terminated string.

I have a simpler solution if you are interested. I have a service program I
have used for years to wrapper all the Unix api's so it takes care of all
the housekeeping to call the API's. It includes a function to read
directories and get file names from the directory. Let me know and I will
send to you.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 1:47 PM, <JGallagher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am trying to use opendir API and all the examples I see all have a hard
> coded path and I have tried many ways to use a variable constructed path
> name with no luck.
>
> Example:
>
> eval      dir = opendir('/XXX/PAYROLL/020-MEMPHIS DEV/50113');  Works
>
> When I try constructing a path name from a file I created of sub folders I
> want to read the dir always returns null?
>
> eval      dir = opendir('/XXX/PAYROLL/' + pathout)); returns null where
> pathout is sub folder name from the file.
>
> Jack Gallagher
> MIS Dept.
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