Working with directories

[LiquidRezin]

can someone tell me how i can make a directory if it doesnt
exist? i know the structure is as follows:

if path doesnt exist then
mkdir "pathname"

but i dont know the commands in vb, thanks...

Pete

[Aaron Young]

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    If Len(Dir("C:\SomeDirName\*.*", vbDirectory)) = 0 Then
        MkDir "C:\SomeDirName"
    End If
End Sub

[LiquidRezin]

Originally posted by Aaron Young

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    If Len(Dir("C:\SomeDirName\*.*", vbDirectory)) = 0 Then
        MkDir "C:\SomeDirName"
    End If
End Sub

that was simple heh, thanks a bunch

Pete

[Chris]

how abt this?

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    If Dir("C:\SomeDirName") = "" Then MkDir "C:\SomeDirName"
End Sub

[Joacim Andersson]

Although Aaron allready given you the answer I would like to point out an alternative way of doing it.
It might not be the way you want to go in your project but here it is anyway.

You could simply treat an error as an exception and ignoring it.
That is try creating the directory. If the directory allready exists VB will through an error but you could simply ignore that.

On Error Resume Next
MkDir "C:\YourDirectoryPath"

To Chris, your code is essentially the same as Aaron's with one exception; You're comparing two strings.
String operations in VB is so very slow that it's actually faster to call a function like Aaron does.
Take the following example:

If MyString = "" Then
    'Do Something
End If
'the above is slower then to check if the length of the string is zero
If Len(MyString) = 0 Then
    'Do Something
End If

Best regards

Originally posted by Joacim Andersson
Although Aaron allready given you the answer I would like to point out an alternative way of doing it.
It might not be the way you want to go in your project but here it is anyway.

You could simply treat an error as an exception and ignoring it.
That is try creating the directory. If the directory allready exists VB will through an error but you could simply ignore that.

On Error Resume Next
MkDir "C:\YourDirectoryPath"

Don't use that way, if you can catch the error without having to use the On Error Statement, than do so, because that is really not a good way at all .

[Joacim Andersson]

Originally posted by Matthew Gates
Don't use that way, if you can catch the error without having to use the On Error Statement, than do so, because that is really not a good way at all .

I don't agree with you on this Matthew.
To treat errors as exceptions is an excellent way of writing a nice program flow.
It's used extensively in Java and C++.
I suppose it will be used more in VB with the next version when we get the try, catch and finally statements.
But until that we will still have to go with the On Error Resume Next statement.

I didn't say that this way was better than Aarons suggestion but I wouldn't say that his way is better either.
It's just two different solutions that accomplish the same thing.
Even so, my way cuts down the function calls to a minimum and therefore runs a little bit faster.

Best regards

[LiquidRezin]

quick question...when i create a subdirectory, do i have to create it's parent first?

would i have to do

mkdir "c:\blah"
mkdir "c:\blah\blahblah\"

or can i just do

mkdir "c:\blah\blahblah\"

?

Pete

[LiquidRezin]

nevermind, i cant do a mkdir "c:\blah\blahblah" without mkdir "c:\blah\" first...

Pete