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How to get the total numbers of files of a folder
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From
03/10/2005 08:58:22
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8 SP1
OS:
Windows 2000 SP4
Network:
Windows 2000 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01055451
Message ID:
01055473
Views:
11
>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

Visual FoxPro 8 is limited to 65000 elements per array. VFP 9 allows much larger arrays.

You might also use some API or WSH function.

A function available from VFP is sys(2000) - you will have to write the loop to get one file at a time.
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