Thanks, that was it.
Dud question.
2010/1/9 Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Jan 10, 2010, at 00:24 , Thomas Hartman wrote:
Can somebody explain this?
getDirectoryContents inD
["..","#sanity .txt #",".","sanity .txt ","etc .txt ","patchTagDir .txt ","jail .txt","notjail.txt","alldata.txt","allobjs.txt","namesNSizes.txt"]
filterM doesFileExist =<< getDirectoryContents inD
["sanity.txt"]
My first guess is that inD isn't "."; getDirectoryContents doesn't fully qualify the names it returns, so doesFileExist looks in the current directory for the bare names returned.
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