>Howdy experts,
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>I am looking to calculate the number of files. I have a folder called bkngimgs. I want to allow my setup program to Capture the number of images that are in that irectory and then use that number to get a random number and select that file for the background image for my intial splash screen.
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>Any ideas how to accomplish this? Is this a good approach or should I look at capturing all file names into a table and generating the random record against the table?

A concise way to do it:

* set to match your image repository and extension
#DEFINE IMAGES_REPOSITORY	"C:\Users\" + ALLTRIM(SUBSTR(SYS(0), AT("#", SYS(0)) + 1)) + "\Pictures\*.jpg"

LOCAL ARRAY Images(1)

? m.Images(EVL(ROUND(RAND() * ADIR(m.Images, IMAGES_REPOSITORY), 0), 1), 1)