Description

Calling GetFileNames returns the file names 

Syntax

Function GetFileNames(filter, options)

filter (input) - a string representing full pathname of the folder with the wild card based filter
options (input) - an optional string with hints which control how the list of files to be created and would it be sorted.
Could content the following sub-string:

• folder - include the folder names (default is only files)
• folder only - no files, only folders
• system - do not skip system files
• hidden - do not skip hidden files
• name - sort the result by name
• date - sort by date
• size - sort by size
• desc - sort in the reverse order
• sub - recursively scan the sub-folders

Return value

Array of file names (or full pathnames if the 'sub' parameter was set)

Example

    VBScript:

    dim ff, i

    ff = trg.file.GetFileNames( "C:\test\" & "*.ppt*", "date desc" )

    for i = 0 to ubound(ff)
        msgbox i & ": " & ff(i)
    next

 

See also

Platform Objects and Methods
target.file.GetExtensionByMIME
target.file.GetMIME
target.file