Retrieve the number of file of a particular extention...

[morphman2000]

I want to retrieve the number of files with the extention ".txt" in a folder.

Can somebody help me on this?

Tnx.

Dennie

[joefoulkes]

Add a FileListBox to your form, set the path (file1.path) to be the folder you are looking at. Set the pattern (file1.pattern) to *.txt, then just do file1.listcount to return the number of txt files.

[Stevie]

Try this ...

Private Function GetNumberOfFiles(ByVal FolderName As String, _
                                  ByVal Extension As String) As Long

Dim strFile As String
Dim lngCount As Long

  lngCount = 0
  
  strFile = Dir(FolderName, vbNormal Or vbReadOnly Or vbHidden Or vbSystem)
  
  Do Until strFile = ""
  
    If Right$(strFile, 3) = Extension Then lngCount = lngCount + 1
    strFile = Dir
  
  Loop

  GetNumberOfFiles = lngCount

End Function

Call with ...

  lngResult = GetNumberOfFiles("c:\SomeFolder\", "txt")
  MsgBox lngResult

Hope this helps.

[Berthil]

You should use the FindFiles API instead. This ones much faster but depending on the search area size, may take some time to.

The code is long for it but is availabel on good VB-Code sites. Try:

http://www.planet-source-code.com/xq...s/ShowCode.htm

[HeSaidJoe]

'just a plain and simple count (No Extras)

Private Sub Form_Load()
    'access all files within a folder
    
    Dim stFile As String
    Dim stDir As String
    Dim i As Integer
    
    stDir = "C:\My Documents\"     'the folder to search
    stFile = Dir$(stDir & "*.txt") 'type of files to select
    
    Do While stFile <> ""
      i = i + 1
      stFile = Dir
    Loop
'do what you want to with the information supplied
    MsgBox "There are " & i & " files in " & _
               stDir & " of txt type."

End Sub