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  1. December 20th, 1999, 09:29 AM #1
    GinnyLee
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    Text based search for Files

    How do I use the input in a text box to search for a specified file. The file could be anywhere, ie if I type in log.txt how do I find this file and display it

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  2. December 21st, 1999, 04:41 AM #2
    Matthias S
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    Re: Text based search for Files

    You will have to recursivly search all disks and folders for the file. Use dir() for detecting whether you're dealing with a folder or the correct file or something different.

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    Matthias

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  3. December 21st, 1999, 05:01 AM #3
    Chris Eastwood
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    Re: Text based search for Files

    Rnady Birch has an excellent example at :

    http://www.mvps.org/vbnet/code/fileapi/recursive.htm

    - it's probably the fastest way of doing it.


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