Re: How to sort the output of lfs.dir

[Mingranina Gingranina <mingranina@...>]

 Dear Boris Nagaev and Rena,
 Hello,

 Many thank for your reply. That solved my problem.

 Yours,
 Mingranina

On 10/8/16, Rena <hyperhacker@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Mingranina Gingranina
> <mingranina@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>  Dear List,
>>  Hello,
>>
>>  In the following function defined in Fontsampler for quick overview
>> of all fonts in a directory hierarchy, I need the output to be sorted
>>  alphabetically. How can I do that?
>>
>>  function dirtree(dir)
>>   assert(dir and dir ~= "", "directory parameter is missing or empty")
>>   if string.sub(dir, -1) == "/" then
>>     dir=string.sub(dir, 1, -2)
>>   end
>>
>>   local function yieldtree(dir)
>>     for entry in lfs.dir(dir) do
>>       if not entry:match("^%.") then
>>         entry=dir.."/"..entry
>>           if not lfs.isdir(entry) then
>>             coroutine.yield(entry,lfs.attributes(entry))
>>           end
>>           if lfs.isdir(entry) then
>>             yieldtree(entry)
>>           end
>>       end
>>     end
>>   end
>>
>>   return coroutine.wrap(function() yieldtree(dir) end)
>> end
>>
>>  Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>  Mingranina
>>
>>
> Add the files to a table, then use table.sort().
>
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