>I need to know the best approach to determine if a file or files exist for a given date. The following naming convention is used for the files:
>Am031700a
>Am031700b
>Pm031700a
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>For any given day, there can be numerous Am and Pm files. The last letter of the file name distinguishes the files. The user will be prompted to enter a date range. The program will then need to search the specified directory for all files for that day. How can I look at every single file in the directory and compare the date portion of the filename to the date range the user entered? I know how to use the FILE() function. I need a way that is going to allow me to scan the entire directory and compare each file name.
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>Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Look at ADIR() - it accepts a template that uses the same structure as the Win file wildcarding convention, and returns an array of files matching the template; you just spin through the array using a FOR loop...