{"id":22351,"date":"2024-03-15T23:25:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T23:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-traverse-a-folder-in-lua-to-get-file-names\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T22:40:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T22:40:20","slug":"how-to-traverse-a-folder-in-lua-to-get-file-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-traverse-a-folder-in-lua-to-get-file-names\/","title":{"rendered":"How to traverse a folder in Lua to get file names?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Lua, you can use the lfs (Lua File System) library to iterate through folders and retrieve file names. Here is an example:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code>lfs = <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">require<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"lfs\"<\/span>)\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-function\"><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">function<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title\">traverseFolder<\/span><span class=\"hljs-params\">(path)<\/span><\/span>\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">for<\/span> file <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">in<\/span> lfs.dir(<span class=\"hljs-built_in\">path<\/span>) <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">do<\/span>\r\n        <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">if<\/span> file ~= <span class=\"hljs-string\">\".\"<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">and<\/span> file ~= <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"..\"<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">then<\/span>\r\n            <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">local<\/span> filePath = <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">path<\/span> .. <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"\/\"<\/span> .. file\r\n            <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">local<\/span> attr = lfs.attributes(filePath)\r\n            <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">if<\/span> attr.mode == <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"directory\"<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">then<\/span>\r\n                traverseFolder(filePath) <span class=\"hljs-comment\">-- \u9012\u5f52\u904d\u5386\u5b50\u6587\u4ef6\u5939<\/span>\r\n            <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">else<\/span>\r\n                <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">print<\/span>(file) <span class=\"hljs-comment\">-- \u6253\u5370\u6587\u4ef6\u540d<\/span>\r\n            <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">end<\/span>\r\n        <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">end<\/span>\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">end<\/span>\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">end<\/span>\r\n\r\ntraverseFolder(<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"path\/to\/folder\"<\/span>)\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this example, the traverseFolder function takes a folder path as a parameter and uses lfs.dir to traverse the files and subfolders in the folder. 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