>SWAG: since the dates are out of the strings, can you hash them ?
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>regds
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>thomas

Nope. The date are not out of the strings. I leave the original filenames untouched. All I'm doing is checking to see one of my 11 strings to look for is in the filename. Else, I ignore the file as invalid.

The if..elseif example mentioned in this thread is working fine now and is fast enough.

Thanks,