Re: Forms 4.5 FindFile or Directory function

Have you considered using the Open File dialog provided by Microsoft windows? I understand you can select multiple files, and you can provide a wildcard for the file type specification, and a starting directory. The d2kwutil.pll library provided with the Forms demos provides this capability.

Greg Cobb <gpbcobb_at_btinternet.com> wrote in article <01bc4967$13eba240$d53d63c3_at_dns.btinternet.com>...
> I am trying to import a set of files into a directory, using TextIO
> package. However, there does not seem to be a method of importing a set
 of
> files within a filesystem directory. I need to import all files in a
> specified directory beginning with the letter "P". I would like to use a
> function like FindFile("P*", DirectoryName) or a fuction which would give
> me a list of files in a directory, so that I could scan through these and
> import all files in a directory into an Oracle Table. I have already
> looked at the supplied Oracle libraries, but cannot seem to find such a
> utility.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> gpbcobb_at_btinternet.com
>
Received on Thu Apr 17 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST