difference in dir list WinXP and Linux

[Tycho Scholtens]

Hello all,

 

I'm using a macro that analyzes images from 4 directories.

It is important that the same file (when sorted by filename) is loaded from
all 4 directories.

When I run the macro pasted below in WinXP it gives the correct listing.
However, when I run it in Linux (RH 9.2) it gives a different order of the
files.

Is this a common problem and related to it, how can I sort an array of
strings in ImageJ (a simple sort() doesn't seem to work).

 

Macro:

dir = getDirectory("Choose main directory to analyze");

dir_ch1 = dir+"Channel 1/";

dir_ch2 = dir+"Channel 2/";

dir_ch3 = dir+"Channel 3/";

dir_ch4 = dir+"Channel BF/";

list_ch1 = getFileList(dir_ch1);

list_ch2 = getFileList(dir_ch2);

list_ch3 = getFileList(dir_ch3);

list_ch4 = getFileList(dir_ch4);

n = list_ch1.length

for (i=0; i<n; i++) {

            print(list_ch1[i]);

            print(list_ch2[i]);

            print(list_ch3[i]);

            print(list_ch4[i]);

}

 

Regards,

 

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[Gabriel Landini]

Not sure if this will help, but it is not a good idea to use directories with
spaces. Use "_" instead.

Cheers,

G.

On Friday 20 January 2006 15:25, Tycho Scholtens wrote:

> I'm using a macro that analyzes images from 4 directories.
> It is important that the same file (when sorted by filename) is loaded from
> all 4 directories.
> When I run the macro pasted below in WinXP it gives the correct listing.
> However, when I run it in Linux (RH 9.2) it gives a different order of the
> files.
> Is this a common problem and related to it, how can I sort an array of
> strings in ImageJ (a simple sort() doesn't seem to work).
>
> Macro:

[Michael Doube-2]

Linux and Windoze handle filelists differently - Linux is case
sensitive, listing capitals (uppercase) first.  Also, I've noticed WinXP
gets clever with numerical filenames, and guesses the correct (implied)
order when you do file1.img, file2.img ... file34.img instead of
file01.img, file02.img, ... file34.img - whereas Linux will get the
numbers out of order, but listed more .... precisely.  Linux may also
give other characters (like spaces) a different precedence than WinXP,
giving the OS-es different list orders.

Hope this helps

Mike

Gabriel Landini wrote:

>Not sure if this will help, but it is not a good idea to use directories with
>spaces. Use "_" instead.
>
>Cheers,
>
>G.
>
>On Friday 20 January 2006 15:25, Tycho Scholtens wrote:
>  
>
>>I'm using a macro that analyzes images from 4 directories.
>>It is important that the same file (when sorted by filename) is loaded from
>>all 4 directories.
>>When I run the macro pasted below in WinXP it gives the correct listing.
>>However, when I run it in Linux (RH 9.2) it gives a different order of the
>>files.
>>Is this a common problem and related to it, how can I sort an array of
>>strings in ImageJ (a simple sort() doesn't seem to work).
>>
>>Macro:
>>    
>>

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[Albert Cardona]

Tycho,

See how I arrange the listing of files here, so it is always consistent:

http://www.pensament.net/java/other_plugins.html#open_seq
http://www.pensament.net/java/other_plugins.html#image_browser

Albert

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