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Invalid subscript reference
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8 SP1
OS:
Windows XP
Database:
Visual FoxPro
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Thread ID:
01173721
Message ID:
01173723
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How many files you have in that folder?
I can't remember what was the error if ADIR() exceeds VFP limit.

>Hi everybody,
>
>I'm using ADIR on a big directory to get files by a certain mask. We're getting "invalid subscript reference" error. I would assume, that if the array exceeds the VFP limits I would get a different error. I scanned through the code and the code always looks like
>
>
>lcCheck = SUBSTR(m.lcStyle, 1, AT(m.lcNumberPart, m.lcStyle) + LEN(m.lcNumberPart) - 1)
>	IF ADIR(laFiles, m.HomeImg + m.lcCheck + "*." + m.tcExt) >=1
>		FOR lnI = 1 TO ALEN(laFiles,1)
>			lcEnd = STRTRAN(JUSTSTEM(laFiles[m.lnI,1]), m.lcCheck, "")
>			IF EMPTY(m.lcEnd) OR ISALPHA(m.lcEnd)
>				lcFile = m.HomeImg + laFiles[m.lnI,1] && Pick up the first file if we have more than 1
>				EXIT
>			ENDIF
>		NEXT
>	ENDIF
>
>e.g. I always check, if ADIR returns one or more elements and then access the file name using lnI,1 in the FOR loop. I don't see how this may produce the above error.
>
>I used ADIR in several parts of the program the same way.
>
>Do you think, this error is misleading and may be result of too many files? But I always use a mask...
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