>I need to know the name of every single file in a directory
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>I'm trying to run adir() in a very large directory about 100,000 files; the problem is that VFP array limit is 65,000 elements, so the names of the files do not fit in the array (I get an invalid subscript reference error).
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>I could do "DIR *.* to file DIR.TXT" then extract the names from the text file. Is there any easyer way to get all the file names in the directory? or better in a string variable separated by commas?
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In addition to the suggestions you've already gotten, you might check out the January '04 FoxPro Advisor, where I addressed this exact question in the Advisor Answers column.

Tamar