>>>I really like the search in Windows Explorer. I can search for text in a given date range and it will go into both texfiles and memo fields of tables.
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>>>Is there any way to programatically use this in VFP? I'd like to feed it a search and have some way of retrieving the list of files it finds.
>>>Michelle
And if you are really keen to roll-your-own then you should check out Filer.DLL - this has
all of the functionality of the Windows Explorer search!
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>Actually, I was going to post a method, which you helped me with while ago. It doesn't allow to specify string and data, may be we can improve it further?
Sure it does, you can specify upto three strings to search for and set a date range, etc.
just like Windows Explorer. There is even a form (might be vcx) that comes with VFP showing you how it works :-)
censored.