>Good point,
>It must be:
>

>IF NOT LEFT(laFiles[lnFor,1],1) == [.]
>

>No need to TRIM.

I was being lazy and didn't check adir for trim, you are correct they are already trimmed.

>And I use LEFT(,1_ because I don't want to check for both - [.] and [..] :-)

Sounds fine to me. I use the other method because it is possible to create a file name that starts with ".", windows explorer won't let you, but modi comm will.

I wouldn't consider starting a file with "." a good practice, but you never know what you will run into.