>>>>>Hi !
>>>>>
>>>>>Is anybody have an idea to get the total numbers of files of a folder. We have more than 20000 files in a folder and we want to check the total numbers of files exist in folders.
>>>>>
>>>>>We have tried =ADIR() function to the same but it give an error "Invalid subscript reference" or "subscript out of range".
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks in advance
>>>>>Ravi Mehrotra
>>>>
>>>>I just tried
>>>>?ADir(dummy,'mypath\*.*')
>>>>with a directory with more than 54000 files. Worked fine.
>>>Tore, didn't you tryed this with VFP9?
>>>VFP8 still has a limitation for Maximum # of elements per array 65000 (54000*5=270000)
>>
>>Yes, I tried it with VFP9. Does anyone still use older versions?
>
>Ravi pointed the version.
>And I do till today :-) From now on I move to VFP9. Hurray!
Congratulations, better late than never!
I guess Ravi must stick to something like
List file like yourpath\*.* to file dummy.txt
lcDummy=FileToStr('dummy.txt')
?GetWordCount(lcDummy)
This will no give the exact number of files, because the dummy.txt file will include some additional information.