Manual:DIL Manual/unitdir()

Function:  stringlist unitdir( match : string ) ;

  match
         The wild card file you want to match or '*' for all.
  return
         a Stringlist with all the filenames that match the 'match' argument.

The 'match' argument uses the same wild cards as the Linux 'ls' command
so the following will work.

  *
         Match any character or group of characters
  ?
         Match one of any character
  [...]
         Match one of a set of characters

Example:

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"corpse*" matches:  corpse.10938 corpse.whistler corpseofwhistler ...
"corpse?" matches corpse1 corpses corpse5 ...
"[abc]*" matches ability about cost back ...
"[a-z]*" about zoo man father ...
"start[nm]end" matches startnend startmend

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Example DIL:

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dilbegin aware reload_corpse();
var
        corpselist:stringlist;
        u:unitptr;
        ln:integer;
        i:integer;
        x:extraptr;
code
{
        corpselist:=unitdir("corpse*");
        ln:=length(corpselist);
        i:=0;
        while (i<ln)
        {
        u:=restore(corpselist.[i],null);
        x:=CORPSE_EXTRA in u.extra;
        if (u!=null)
                if (x!=null)
                        link (u,findroom(x.descr));
                else
                        link (u,findroom("temple@udgaard"));
        i:=i+1;
        }

quit;
}
dilend

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The previous DIL example is the DIL used in restoring corpses to the game in
case of a crash.  For more information you can see how the death DIL'S work
by reading through the file death.zon in the vme2.0/zone.
directory.

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