>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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>Thanks in advance

The Windows Script Host's Scripting.FileSystemObject might help. It treats files as objects and. It's fairly easy to go through the files and any store them in an array or table.

Note, however, that prior to VFP 9.0, the limit on arrays is 65,000 elements. That's a good reason to store the results in a table.