You might want to send the output of the DIR command to NUL
OUT NUL DIR .vFile2Find SET VAR vErrSave1 = .vErrVar OUT SCREEN NUL is a bucket that just throws away any output sent to it. This is good practice when you won't be using the output generated From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Karen Tellef Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2014 10:50 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Counting files in a directory Ah! I never thought of using an error variable with a "dir". I think I'll use that, thanks Albert! Karen -----Original Message----- From: Albert Berry <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Wed, Aug 6, 2014 10:47 am Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Counting files in a directory 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
