>>>>I am using ADIR to get a specific number of files from a directory based on a criteria. So, ADIR(laFile,gcFat+'thread\*.*') will create an array and I can now use ALEN(laFile,1) to get the file count. However, on big directory this is causing a big array to be created just to get the number of files. How can I optimize that?
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>>>lnFiles=adir(laFile,gcFat+'thread\*.*'), e.g. adir returns number of files.
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>>>Too bad, you don't have Help installed...
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>>BTW, another alternative would be to use FileScriptingObject. Check George's Tasker and Ed Rauh article in VFUG for details.
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>It's FileSystemObject.

I knew, I would confuse it :) I'm reading this article now...

oFSO = CREATEOBJECT("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
     oFolder = oFSO.GetFolder("gcFat+'thread\")
     lnFiles=oFSO.oFolder.Files.Count