Recusive mkdir

[Anon]

Hello All, I'm trying to come up with a way to pass that mkdir fuction a path name (like /foo/bar/path/to/dir)

Now i know that if the directory /foo/bar/path/to exists, and i can write to it, then the directory i pass to mkdir will be made

However, if the directory is not there (perhaps none of the /foo tree is there, or only /foo/bar/path exits) the function fails.

Is there anyway to step though the pathname and create each part of the path if it doesn't exist?

[Anon]

Is there anyway to step though the pathname and create each part
of the path if it doesn't exist?

Sure, you just split the pathname into all the individual components
(using e.g. 'explode()') and then rebuild the path piece by piece starting
from the left. Then call 'filetype()' for each partial path. If the directory
already exists (i.e. if filetype() returns "dir") then just add the next
component, otherwise use 'mkdir()' to create the directory.

OBTW, if at any point 'filetype()' says the file exists but it's not
a directory, you're out of luck--something else (e.g. a regular
file) already has the name.