>>>>Anyone know the VFP syntax for an API or WSH function that will return an array of filenames whose contents contain a specified string? TIA!
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>>>You can use Filler.dll that comes with VFP.

oFiler = CREATEOBJECT('Filer.FileUtil')
>>>oFiler.SearchPath = "H:\temp"
>>>oFiler.FileExpression = '*.PRG'
>>>oFiler.SearchText1 = "LOCAL"
>>>?oFiler.Find(0)
>>>? oFiler.Files.Count

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>>This works great as long as the files are text files. It does not work on ZIP [or any binary?] files.
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>I searched FXP and ZIP files for a text string and it worked fine. What problem do you have?

Hmmm. I did a search for a prticular string in a bunch of .TXT files and got 3 or 4 results. I then searches a group of ZIP files that were created by zipping up each TXT file in there own ZIP file. DOH! It just occurred to me that those ZIP files whose creation I have automated for an update service are encrypted with a password. That would be the problem. Thanks for the kick-start.