Directory Enquiries Challenge

[TheDcoder]

22 minutes ago, czardas said:

unofficial August 2016 AutoIt code challenge

Waiting for the September 2016 AutoIt code challenge!

 

Congratulations to the winners .

[stamandster]

12 hours ago, czardas said:

 Orbs and stamandster are awesome

Edited September 2, 2016 by stamandster

[stamandster]

;-) thank you for choosing us, I think we had similar thought processes. Looking forward to the next challenge!

[iamtheky]

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Waiting for the September 2016 AutoIt code challenge!

I vote for a 'find duplicate files' challenge.  I need something to race against my win10 + bash + rdfind

Edited September 2, 2016 by iamtheky

[stamandster]

@iamtheky do you happen to have something already coded for this? ;-)

[iamtheky]

It still has plenty of room for improvement, even at 1.5s

Edited September 2, 2016 by iamtheky

[stamandster]

@iamtheky roger that! 1.5s for how many files?

Edited September 2, 2016 by stamandster

[iamtheky]

1,429 files in 86 folders - multiple types

I'd post the screenshot of the properties but, I cant delete my attachments and neither can the Mods and I am at 100%, maybe they will be nice and increase my cap since IPB is so boned.

[orbs]

thanks @czardas and everyone who contributed to this thread, it was enjoyable! i will now cherish my digital medal and go on an offline vacation for a week, so i won't be around to witness the fallout of these:

@iamtheky,

5 hours ago, iamtheky said:

I vote for a 'find duplicate files' challenge.  I need something to race against my win10 + bash + rdfind

 

1) i believe a new thread is in order.

 

2) i recon an AutoIt challenge solution that involves calling an external executable/library to perform its core task can hardly be considered valid. the ultimate example being of course this:

3) an AutoIt solution to meet your challenge already exists. i can't tell how fast it is compared to bash command, but it is AutoIt...

 

 

[iamtheky]

I'm sure there will be a new thread, but its also a discussion that would then be disjointed. So 6 of 1 half dozen the other.

You should really down the SMF zip file and look how native it really is, it gets mad help from sqllite and contains the entirety of 7z which I am sure assists in compression/speed.  If the resource is available to your system for $0 and can be controlled via an AutoIt script, then get some.  Trying to dance around it for posterity will only make the end result suffer.

And in my testing, I win the race.  Though admittedly I havent done repeated attempts to ensure that the behavior once fs is cached persists.

@orbs

re-reading 2) it seems you think I want to compete.  I merely want something faster.  And if you read the specs for rdfind there are ways to improve SMF, like using first bytes

Edited September 3, 2016 by iamtheky

[czardas]

I have to admit these challenge threads can be fun. I will have to think of something for a future challenge. Once per month is perhaps a bit too frequent though. I guess we should have a hall of fame. 

Edited September 3, 2016 by czardas

[iamtheky]

Or Flags, and a post where you can list metrics required to take the individual flags from the various users that hold them.

A sporting thread of sorts

[czardas]

I guess it's best not to rely too heavily on forum software features because IPB will break it. Such a thread will have to be maintained by someone (or by a committee).

Edited September 3, 2016 by czardas

[iamtheky]

or a competitive subforum, with challenges having their own individual threads.  It certainly couldnt be a free for all, scopes will have to be narrowly defined.  But I like challenges so probably would've worked my through a sub like that after AutoIt-1-2-3.

Edited September 3, 2016 by iamtheky
free fall and free for all mean 2 diff things

[czardas]

Something like that would require Jon to set it up and there are already quite a few subforums. If we can generate sufficient interest though, who knows what can happen?

Edited September 3, 2016 by czardas

[TheDcoder]

Just now, czardas said:

If we can generate sufficient interest though, who knows what can happen?

True .

[Zedna]

Just one optimization note:

Always use parameter CaseSense=1 in StringInStr() or StringReplace() when there are searched/tested/replaced non a-z,A-Z strings.

This way you can achieve BIG speed boost!

 

EDIT:

Of course also use case sensitive string comparison in IF ... THEN:

If string1 == string2 Then ...

instead of much slower NOT case sensitive one:

If string1 = string2 Then ...