[Dev-luatex] Fwd: Importing .tex files using \directlua to navigate files and folders

12 Aug 2022


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Subject: Re: [Dev-luatex] Importing .tex files using \directlua to 
navigate files and folders
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 09:44:24 +0200
From: Hans Hagen 
To: Taco Hoekwater 

On 8/12/2022 9:30 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
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On 11 Aug 2022, at 14:08, paolo de luca  wrote:
Hi all,
I've been trying to import all tex files and inside a given folder, the issue I'm facing is that my lua call is not able to navigate folders: it only works for files.
It's worth mentioning that compilation successfully completes as the document is created, but I have no errors explaining me why it's not working as intended.
I've also opened a question on tex.stackexchange.
would you mind having a look at it ?
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/653499/understanding-implicit-error-...
See comment on SX. Don't 'return' the nested call, and it works just fine.
function inputAll(dir)
     for content in lfs.dir(dir) do
         if ("." ~= content) and (".." ~= content)  then
             fullpath = dir .."/".. content
                 contentType = lfs.attributes(fullpath, "mode")
             if isTexFile(content, contentType) then
                     tex.sprint("
\\
input{" .. fullpath .. "}")
             elseif ("directory" == contentType) then
                 -- return
                 inputAll(fullpath)
             end
         end
     end
end
yes, the return is quitter, but even then one can run into some nested 
directory handle issue especially when one does things inside that loop 
on one of the directories (maybe the \input results in new files there 
or files get deleted and or ..) and one wants to have a predictable 
sorted list i assume so i tend to collect first

Hans

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