do trailing spaces cause (file? x) to return nil?

[ghyll]

I have a few directories full of files named with trailing spaces. I thought this would remove the trailing spaces, but it only returns nil.

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(dolist (x (directory path))
        (rename-file x (trim x))
)

I tried debugging by using (trace true) with the following code:

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 (dolist (x (directory path)) 
   (file? x))
)

The "." and ".." files in the directory are files, but the other files return "nil". Does the trailing space prevent newLISP from recognizing the file as a file? Is there something else that may be causing the error (e.g. bad code on my part)? Thanks!

[ralph.ronnquist]

Maybe you overlook that directory only returns file base names, without the path prefix?

[ghyll]

Maybe you overlook that directory only returns file base names, without the path prefix?

D'oh! You're completely correct. I forgot to move Terminal from my "newlisp" directory to where it should have been. Thank you :)