>Nadya,
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>The limit for versions before VFP 9 is 65,000 array elements - that would be about 13,000 files. Do you happen to have more than that?
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You're too late to the game <g> Yes, I do if my mask is too short. I'm going to put some restrictions on the mask and also add try/catch functionality


>>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
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>>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

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>>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.
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>>I used ADIR in several parts of the program the same way.
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>>Do you think, this error is misleading and may be result of too many files? But I always use a mask...