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[HeSaidJoe]

I have a few hundre files with weird names.
ie. Trying To Find A Few Hundred Dollars
Special Things To Do If You Are Dead

I would like to convert the file names to
the first letter of each word.
ie. ttfafhd
sttdiyad

How do I manipulate the strfunction or whatever to do such a thing.

Thanks,
Wayne

[Iain17]

The following code should do it for you. I am sure someone else out there has a better method, but this one works.

    Dim myStr As String
    Dim newStr As String
    Dim i As Long
    
    i = 1
    myStr = "Example Showing How To Get The First Charcter In Each Word In A String"

    myStr = Trim$(myStr)
    
    'get the first character.
    newStr = Mid$(myStr, 1, 1)
    
    'loop while there is a space in the string
    While i <> 0
      i = InStr(i, myStr, " ")
      If (i <> 0) Then
        i = i + 1
        newStr = newStr & Mid$(myStr, i, 1)
      End If
    Wend
    
    MsgBox newStr

[V(ery) Basic]

Well.I've never done anything like this before, but te very base code would go *something* like this:

Dim strAcronym() as String, strFinal as String, i as Integer

strFinal = ""
strAcronym = Split(thefilename, " ")

For i = 0 to UBound(strAcronym)
    strFinal = strFinal & Chr(Asc(strAcronym(i)))
Next:

[newfilename] = strFinal

Hmmm. Well that's as far as I know how to go.

Hope I've helped.

Au revoir.

Me.

[HeSaidJoe]

Thanks...should do the trick...I'll give it a whirl when I get home.

Wayne