Is it possible somehow to exclude files with cfdirectory?
cfdirectory, coldfusion
Solution
The filter attribute is useless if you're trying to do a an exclusion. Case in point: Just yesterday I wanted to use cfdirectory to grab all the subdirectories but EXLCUDE any directory that started with a period "." so that I could exclude things like ".svn" and ".git". Needless to say I searched all over the place and couldn't find an answer.
In the end I ended up just using some conditional logic in my loop:
<cfloop query="mydir">
<cfif left(name, 1) neq ".">
<!--- do some code --->
</cfif>
</cfloop>
Which got the job done. Of course I could of used a QoQ, but to me adding all that overhead to filter out directories that began with a period seemed silly.
Bottom line is that, yes, we're screwed when it comes to exclusion filtering with cfdirectory, but there's no reason you can't use your imagination and a little bit of code to get the results that you want.
Problem
When using cfdirectory, how could I exclude all cfm files and list all others without specifying the file extensions for all files I want to see, or exclude a specific file like index.html without doing a query of query? I'm looking for something like the following, notice the filter attribute. ``` <cfdirectory directory="#ExpandPath('./')#" action="list" name="qryFiles" filter="!index.html" sort="name ASC" listinfo="name"> ``` or: ``` <cfdirectory directory="#ExpandPath('./')#" action="list" name="qryFiles" filter="!*.cfm" sort="name ASC" listinfo="name"> ```