Not so. What you are seeing is a result of
the way you called -display-. If you
. di `"`i'"'
the spaces will be evident. N.B. at least
under Windows, the compound double quotes
`" "' are important for -display- here.
Nick
[email protected]
Taavi Lai
> I tried to store a list of directories in current folder like
> -fs- does
> for later use in -foreach-.
>
> . local i: dir "." dir "*"
>
> . di `i'
> europa_500000_mapinfoprogshapefiles
>
> Unfortunately as you can see that all the folder names were stored as
> one string.
> Do you have any suggestions how to correct this or where to
> look further.
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