>Greetings!
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>I may be missing something, but I cannot determine how to retrieve a list of files of a given type, such as "*.dat". Visual Basic has its DIR$() function, which retrieves the first or next file of a given series, depending on a supplied parameter.
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>Aside from commands like DIR in VFP, is there a method or function to load a list of files from a directory into, say, an array, without the need of doing fancy parsing of a redirected output file?
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Take a look at ADIR(), which retrieves an array of filenames for a specified directory; there is also SYS(2000), which provide a Find First/Find Next capability. And you can also use any of several automation objects (Shell.Application, part of Windows' Shell version 4.71 or greater and Scripting.FileSystemObject, part of the Windows Scripting Host) can return Folder objects that you can manipulate.

>Thanks!
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>Michael Reynolds