File release 1.0.0.13 Help thread

[marq]

A lot of the features that I have planned are not yet implemented but for the most part this program is a functional prototype which should accept most FTP commands.  If I've missed some FTP commands that you would like to see please let me know in this thread or open up a Feature Request.  Being an alpha release the next release will have many tweaks and changes plus if there are some downloads and some errors encountered that I don't catch, please let me know by putting in a bug report.

I hope this software proves useful to you.

[Michael]

Instead of using Datasets in the Dir(string mask) function, which produces errors in special cases (for examle a "file*.ext" pattern), I use the following helper class:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

namespace FTPClient
{
    public class FileSystemPatterns
    {
        private string _SearchPattern;
        public FileSystemPatterns(string SearchPattern)
        {
            _SearchPattern = string.Format("^{0}$",
                SearchPattern.Replace(".", @"\.").Replace("*", ".*").Replace("?", ".?").Replace("$", @"\$"));
        }
        public string[] GetMatches(string[] entries)
        {
            return Array.FindAll<string>(entries, PatternMatch);
        }

        public List<string> GetMatches(List<string> entries)
        {
            return entries.FindAll(PatternMatch);
        }

        private bool PatternMatch(string entry)
        {
            return Regex.IsMatch(System.IO.Path.GetFileName(entry), _SearchPattern, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
        }
    }
}

Inside the program, it can be easily accessed via

        public List<string> Dir(String mask)
        {
            List<string> tmpList = Dir();

        FileSystemPatterns fp = new FileSystemPatterns(mask);

        return fp.GetMatches(tmpList);
        }//Dir

That makes it much quicker and more powerful than the DataSet.

[marq]

I'll look into this.  I'm currently going to work on a port to C# of the ftp4che java library and then migrate this scriptable clients backend to the new library once its finished so I'll look at your implementation and see if I can squeeze it into the library during the port.  I haven't messed with this project for awhile now but I think you may be talking about a function located in the FTPClient library, yeah?  But yeah, I'll see about using your implementation with the new backend.