Wildcards using FileSystemObject or whatever

[cvaden]

Question: Creating app that will give me just the file name of any file in a specified directory with the extension .rar.

FSO doesn't seem to understand wildcards in VB. Is there a way to make it give me back just the file name? The File name will never be the same.

[Joacim Andersson]

Try this:

Public Function GetRARFile(sPath As String) As String
Dim sFile$
sPath = sPath & IIf(Right$(sPath, 1)<>"\", "\", "")
sFile = Dir(sPath & "*.rar")
If Len(sFile) Then
GetRARFile = Mid$(sFile, InStrRev(sFile, "\") + 1)
End If
End Function

Good luck!

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Joacim Andersson
joacim@programmer.net
joacim@yellowblazer.com
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1. start new project
2. add a command button named command1 to the form
3. reference the scripting run time
4. cut and paste the following in the code module of the form:

Option Explicit


Private Sub Command1_Click()
FindFilesWithExtension "tmp", "c:\temp"
End Sub

Public Sub FindFilesWithExtension(ByVal strExtensionToFind, ByVal strDirectoryToSearch)

Dim fso As Scripting.FileSystemObject
Dim fsoFile As Scripting.File

Set fso = New Scripting.FileSystemObject

For Each fsoFile In fso.GetFolder(strDirectoryToSearch).Files
If fso.GetExtensionName(fsoFile) = strExtensionToFind Then
Debug.Print fso.GetExtensionName(fsoFile)
End If
Next

Set fso = Nothing

End Sub

[cvaden]

Thanks for your help guys! That was exactly what I needed!

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