>I quickly scanned through the Help and I may try to play with the Filer. In any case, as I posted, it did return wrong results using *e4* as a mask, as well as ADIR(). I don't know what exactly is to blame.
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>BTW, I did post the results of _cliptext in my message to you. Perhaps you haven't seen it.
Yet another way to get a list of filenames is the DOS command DIR. I am not sure whether this has been mentioned already.
The following example will put the list of files into the file "output.txt", which must then be analyzed.
RUN DIR c:\MyFolder\*.* /B > output.txt
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)