>Sorry, I've been away from my computer here at my office for a few days so you probably figured out the problem already but I'll give you my response anyway:
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>If you use the command without the back slash after the word TEMP, for example:
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> x = adir(y, "C:\TEMP", "D")
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>It should only return 1 for the variable x. However, if you use the backslash after the word TEMP you're right it'll return the "." and ".." in the array.
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>Going back to the first scenario, without using the back slash, you can check
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> y(1,5) = "D"
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>the fifth element will give you the attribute of the file/directory. If it's a file it'll show "A...." and if it's a directory it'll show ".....D" or something to that effect.

The reason I suggest this, is that if by adding the "\" to the end of the directory this is a sure fire way of determining that I have a sub-directory, then I don't need to bother with the following check of the array. I'm just not sure that I can rely on the result.