Here is an old post yith exactely the same topic ;)
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Hi,
I`ve done this with the help of this great list by this way:
(1): make a .bat like this
c:
cd \xxxx your directory here xxxx
dir /o:n /b *.gif > gif.txt
(2) call this .bat file wirth an external action in your taf or tcf
(3) use an file action to put the file content in a variable
(4) transform this variable into an array: i do it like this
<@ASSIGN NAME=ArrayGif VALUE='<@ARRAY VALUE=<@REPLACE STR=<@VAR listegif
ENCODING=MULTILINEHTML> FINDSTR="<BR>" REPLACESTR=";">>' SCOPE=LOCAL>
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But you should use the @@Local$ResultSet just after the external call and
remove the file redirection of the batch ('dir /b > file.txt' should become
only 'dir /b'), so you avoid (3) and (4)
I was somewhat complicated soul when I've posted this...
Don't forget to remove the first(s) cells of the @@Local$ResultSet that
sometimes contain some data that you don't yant in your array (depends of
the instruction called)
Hope this help
Gauthier
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From: "John Newsom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of list witango-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 2:49 PM
Subject: Witango-Talk: directory listing
> I am pumped about the rtf method of populating word documents with
databased
> data. I am using it to populate student progress report forms. Very very
> slick. Now I would like to automatically populate a drop down box with
the rtf
> files available in a particular directory. I have searched the list
archives on
> the witango site, and the method proposed in one post was to write a batch
file
> that does a directory listing and then use the extrenal action to call the
batch
> file, and access the resultset. I could use the choicelist tag then to
display
> the resultset as a drop down list. Is this still the method of choice?
>
> Also, my hard drive crashed, alas, and I have lost my book marks to the
various
> list archives. I have Ben's site, but the search doesn't seem to be
working.
> Also, the witango site. But I thought there was another one with the
complete
> archives. Can some one help?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John Newsom
>
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