Searching all text files in a directory

[tsteward]

Any ideas how I might quickly search all text files (with the extension 'txt') in a single folder for given text?

[Cableguy]

List all files is easy, searching for a particular string in any of those files...
The easiest way is to load esch file and do the search in each of them, populating some sort of "Hit-list" with the results...
But that would be very time and resouce consuming..

[tsteward]

Originally Posted by Cableguy

List all files is easy, searching for a particular string in any of those files...
The easiest way is to load esch file and do the search in each of them, populating some sort of "Hit-list" with the results...
But that would be very time and resouce consuming..

Yeah well that is what I have done so far.
I guess I was hoping someone had some other method.

My Code(obviously I will replace the message box with populating a list)

ALFiles.Clear
  FileSearch(ALFiles,SubString(wikiDir,0,StrLength(wikiDir)-1),"*.txt")
  For f=0 To ALFiles.Count-1
   FileOpen (c1, ALFiles.Item(f), cRead ,, cASCII)
   contents = FileReadToEnd(c1)
   FileClose (c1)
   r=StrIndexOf(contents,"[" & currentpage & "]",0) '+ StrIndexOf(contents,"][" & currentpage & "]]",0)
   s = StrIndexOf(contents, "][" & currentpage & "]",0)
   If r>-1 AND s = -1 Then
    Msgbox(ALFiles.Item(f) & crlf & "Is Backlink")
   End If
  Next

[tsteward]

How can I get all the *.txt files in the current directory and ALL sub directories. Not sure how to find and keep track of all the sub dirs

[klaus]

Here you have an example, it goes only 3 levels of subdirectories deep, if you need more you can add the needed code.

Best regards.

[specci48]

Just to complete this thread: The solution is here.