Problem when writing filenames to text file ...

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#1

Hiya,

I’m struggling with a script to take the filenames of files in a folder, and write them to a text file. The files are named File1, File2, File3, etc, but the resulting list that Applescript produces it this way: File1, File10, File11 … File19, File2, File20, etc.

Is there any way to force Applescript to read the file names and list them numerically? Here’s the basics of the code:

set theItems to every file of theFolder
	repeat with i in theItems
		set theFilename to name of i
		set k to open for access file (i as text) with write permission
		set eof of k to 0
		
		write "<img src=\"images/" & theFilename & ".jpg" & "\" alt=\"" & theFilename & "\"" & "/>" & return to k starting at eof
end repeat

Cheers,

Kev.

#2

Hello.

This works for me, at least when the numbers are at the end of the filenames. A little bit slow maybe, but fast to implement.


considering numeric strings
	set mf to POSIX file (do shell script "ls -1d ~/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/junk/") as alias as text
	set L to {}
	tell application "Finder"
		set theList to (sort every file of folder mf by name)
		repeat with af in theList
			set end of L to name of af
		end repeat
	end tell
end considering
L
#3

Brilliant! Thank you!

I just needed to add the following line before writing the filenames to my text file:

set theItems to (sort every file of folder theFolder by name)

Cheers,

kev.

#4

Hello.

At least eariler you would need to have the considering numeric strings clause, I’d add that if I were you, just to be on the safe side. :wink:

#5

Hiya,

Okay, will do. The script seems to run fine without the numeric strings, but I’ve added it anyway.

Cheers again,

Kev.