Hi Jos,

Thanks for the reply.

I need to copy certain files from one directory to another directory, then, I need to be able to delete files from a directory with dates older than 5 days. I am not sure that I see how ADIR() helps me do this.
If possible, could you please elaborate?

Thanks,

>Terry
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>ADIR() will fill an array with filenames matching a file skeleton (eg *.TXT) and store file details including date and time in the array.
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>You can then go through this array in a FOR...NEXT loop and check file dates and process accordingly.
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>Jos
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>>Hello,
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>>I have several .txt files in a folder. I want to copy them to another folder based on the date on the file.
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>>I know that I can use a command such as the following to copy all of the files from one folder to another folder:
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>>COPY FILE C:\FOLDER1\*.txt TO C:\FOLDER2\*.txt
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>>The question I have, is how do you selectively move through several files in a folder and only copy those with dates less than or equal to 5 days old.
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>>I also want to delete the files that are greater than 5 days old.
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>>The file names are programmatically created, so I do not know the file names. I only know that they are .txt files.