Selecting all files in a folder

[markgraham123]

Hi all,

Hope everyone is doing good.

I'm working on a requirement where i have multiple folders, Say

C:\QVDATA\Folder1;

C:\QVDATA\Folder2,and

C:\QVDATA\Folder3;

I wanna navigate to every folder and select all the files with ".XLS" extension.

I tried using For loop but not getting executed.

Can someone throw some limelight ..

Thanks in Advance.

[swuehl]

You can use a For Each file In FileList() loop for that, there is even an example in the HELP that does pretty much what you want:

// list all QV related files on disk

SUB DoDir (Root)

FOR Each Ext in 'qvw', 'qva', 'qvo', 'qvs'

FOR Each File in filelist (Root&' \*.' &Ext)

LOAD

'$(File)' as Name,

FileSize( '$(File)' ) as Size,

FileTime( '$(File)' ) as FileTime

autogenerate 1;

NEXT File

NEXT Ext

FOR Each Dir in dirlist (Root&' \*' )

call DoDir (Dir)

NEXT Dir

ENDSUB

CALL DoDir ('C:')

If you want to read xls files, use the appropriate extensions in the filelist (...in 'xls', 'xlsx') and create an appropriate LOAD statement in the loop body.