PathListDir

BETA: NEW FEATURE (BUILD: 1.6.0 r22470)

Reads a specified directory and returns all entries inside of it.

Syntax

table pathListDir ( string path )

OOP Syntax Help! I don't understand this!

Method: path:listDir(...)

Required Arguments

• path: A string containing a path you want to get entries from

Returns

Returns table with all entries in a specified directory.

Example

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Client

This example loads all models from a certain directory

local function string:endswith(ending) -- from https://gist.github.com/kgriffs/124aae3ac80eefe57199451b823c24ec
	return ending == "" or self:sub(-#ending) == ending
end

addEventHandler('onClientResourceStart', resourceRoot, function()
	-- get all files from a models directory that exists in the resource root folder (resources/ResourceName)
	local files = pathListDir('/models')
	for _,file in ipairs(files) do
		local filePath = 'models/'..file
		local modelName = tonumber(file:sub(1, -5)) or 0

		if file:endswith('.col') then
			local colData = engineLoadCOL('models/'..file)

			if colData then
				engineReplaceCOL(colData, modelName)
			end
		end
		if file:endswith('.txd') then
			local txdData = engineLoadTXD('models/'..file)

			if txdData then
				engineImportTXD(txdData, modelName)
			end
		end
		if file:endswith('.dff') then
			local dffData = engineLoadDFF('models/'..file)

			if dffData then
				engineReplaceModel(dffData, modelName)
			end
		end
	end
end)

See Also

ADDED/UPDATED IN VERSION 1.6.0 r22470:
pathListDir
pathIsFile
pathIsDirectory