Try this Karen - I needed to do this for another app, and came up with
this. If the file does not exist, it returns error 2255; if the file
exists verrsave is 0.
SET ERR MESS OFF
SET VAR vFile2find text = "*.rx5"
SET VAR vErrSave INTEGER
SET ERROR VAR vErrVar
DIR .vFile2Find
SET VAR vErrSave1 = .vErrVar
SET VAR vFile2find text = "*.rx1"
DIR .vFile2Find
SET VAR vErrSave2 = .vErrVar
SHOW VAR vErrSave%
RETURN
Albert
On 8/6/2014 8:55 AM, Karen Tellef wrote:
Using 9.5,64-bit, and have the Power Plugin pack available to me.
Back in 7.6, ChkFile worked with wildcards even though the
documentation said the results would be inconsistent. For example, if
you wanted to see if there are any excel files in a directory, you could:
set var vcount = (chkfile('c:\temp\*.xls'))
It would return 1 if there were files, 0 if there wasn't.
So now I'm in 9.5 and I want to check if there are files in a
directory. The ChkFile doesn't work for this, and I looked thru the
plugin document and don't see a filecount. Is there a nice elegant
way to do this now, or do I have to do directories to a file to a temp
table, etc...
Karen
