Need Help with ARRAYS

[Jack]

I am having some trouble understanding arrays and how to Sort them.
The following code bellow looks for txt files in a specific directory.
The problem is that the 'DIR' function grabs the filenames randomly
as explained in the HELP file as Follows;
"Tip Because file names are retrieved in no particular
order, you may want to store returned file names in an array,
and then sort the array."
First, How would I define and populate an array that would store
the .txt files from a specific Directory.
The number of txt files in the directory will vary.
Second, How would I Sort The Array So that the files are are in the same
order as the Application.FileSearch.FoundFiles.Count

The code bellow is just a snippet of code from the Help file that I modified
But as you can tell I'm beginning to lose the understanding of what is going
on.
Please, any help is most appreciated.

With Application.FileSearch
.LookIn = sFilePath(j)
.FileName = "*.txt"
If .Execute() > 0 Then
MyFile = Dir(sFilePath(j))
For I = 1 To .FoundFiles.Count
MyFile = Left(MyFile, Len(MyFile) - 4) 'Removes the .txt
Extension
Application.Loadfromtext Forms, MyFile, .FoundFiles(I)
MyFile = Dir 'Get the next file in the same directory if there
is more than one.
Next I
End With

 

[Tim Ferguson]

First, How would I define and populate an array that would store
the .txt files from a specific Directory.

To be honest, I would just use the Files collection of the Folder object of
the FileSystemObject in the (I think) VBScript library.

Second, How would I Sort The Array So that the files are are in the same
order as the Application.FileSearch.FoundFiles.Count

Dunno: what order is that?

If you did know the order, there are entire books written on sorting
algoriths. Most programming courses spend most of their first term covering
them.

B Wishes


Tim F

 

[Jack]

Thanks for the response anyway;
I'm not sure I know what I'm talking about, But I'm sure I don't understand
what you're talking about.

Again Thanks for the response anyway....

 

[jdb]

Jack

Why don'y you load files names into a table, and then sort the table
the way you want. I used to create tables with names of engineering
drawings and then hyper link them so you to click to see them.

If you want some code by a non-professional just let me know.

jdbeer

 

[Tim Ferguson]

I'm not sure I know what I'm talking about, But I'm sure I don't
understand what you're talking about.

The one usually goes with the other... <g>

Perhaps if you told us what you are trying to achieve, we may be able to
help more. There are lots of ways of manipulating files and folders, and
not all of them are suitable for all problems. I am a big fan of
"classical" programming techniques, but even I cannot remember the last
time I tried to populate and then sort an array!

B wishes


Tim F