file.Find

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Function
Syntax	file.Find( String filename, [ Boolean usebasefolder ] ) Where is this used?
Description:
Find a list of files within a directory
Returns:	Table : String Filenames
Part of Library:	File
Realm:
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Examples

Description	This example lists all of the text files in the my_mod directory
Used on
Code	local list = file.Find("my_mod/*.txt") for _, f in pairs(list) do Msg( f ) end
Output	N/A

Additional Notes

• Relative to garrysmod/data.
• If usebasefolder is true then it starts relative to the GMod base folder (garrysmod/garrysmod).
• file.Find lists all files and folders, not just files.
• file.Find returns the file name as the value, NOT the full path. So for example, if you had something like data/random/stuff.txt:

 
MsgAll(file.Find("random/stuff.txt")[1])
//Output: stuff.txt
 
MsgAll(file.Find("random/*")[1])
//Output: stuff.txt
 
MsgAll(file.Find("random/*.txt")[1])
//Output: stuff.txt
 

See Also

• File
• File.FindInLua
• File.FindDir
• File.Read
• File.Write