>>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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>Michel,
>As Nadya posted, ADir() oes return the number of rows in the array. But as you already sigthed, the array still gets built and this could a significant amount of time on large directories. It could also fail on very large directories because of the 65000 element limit of arrays.
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>You can use the old Sys(2000) function.

>local lxx, lcfile
>lxx = 0
>lcfile = sys(2000,gcFat+'thread\*.*')
>do while !(lcfile=='')
>   lcfile = sys(2000,gcFat+'thread\*.*',1)
>   lxx = lxx + 1
>enddo

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>If you only need the count, this should give you what you want.

I tried it and it works well.

However, it would be nice is the FileSystemObject would allow that in one command.