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Clean3.0 get directory contents

I am using Cleanide for Clean3.0 programming language. What I am trying to do is to implement a function that receive name of a directory in my system, and return a list of all the files in that directory.

I don't know if the defintion of such function needs to be like File -> [string] or maybe something else, even that directory is a file maybe this is not the developers of Clean meant...

Thank a lot!

Solution

  • This functionality is not available in the StdEnv environment, but there are two libraries that can help with this:

    • The Directory library contains a module Directory which has a function getDirectoryContents :: !Path !*env -> (!(!DirError, [DirEntry]), !*env) | FileSystem env.

    • The Platform library contains a module System.Directory which has a function readDirectory :: !FilePath !*w -> (!MaybeOSError [FilePath], !*w).

    In both cases the first argument is a path to the directory and the second argument is the *World, which is the typical way of Clean to perform impure operations (see chapter 9 of the language report).

    Code examples

    With Directory:

    import Directory

Start w
# (dir,w) = getDirectoryContents (RelativePath []) w
= dir

    With Platform:

    import System.Directory

Start w
# (dir,w) = readDirectory "." w
= dir