>>Good point,
>>It must be:
>>

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

>>No need to TRIM.
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>I was being lazy and didn't check adir for trim, you are correct they are already trimmed.
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>>And I use LEFT(,1_ because I don't want to check for both - [.] and [..] :-)
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>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.
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>I wouldn't consider starting a file with "." a good practice, but you never know what you will run into.

Agree, but we talk about Tracy here, and I am pretty sure she didn't starts her files with point :-)