[Haskell-cafe] Filesystem questions

Steve Schafer steve at fenestra.com
Fri Oct 12 13:52:33 EDT 2007


On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:21:07 +0100, you wrote:

>I notice that getDirectoryContents appears to return its results in 
>alphabetical order. Is this behaviour actually guaranteed?

This is a Windows thing. All of the NT-based operating systems list
files in alphabetical order by default. You see the same thing if you
use the DIR command from a command-line prompt.

Steve Schafer
Fenestra Technologies Corp.
http://www.fenestra.com/


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