How to Search By File Extension?

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At the present time I have created a form with some recrusion to search directories and sub directories but I do not wish to search all files. I need help with searching only the file extensions that I specify such as .sys, .exe and so forth. The example i have populates the contents of the directory with the selection I have made with a combobox (Eg. C:\ .EXE) which pulls up all files ending with the file extension .exe , now is there some way to go about doing this without the use of a listbox? What I mean to ask is there anyway that I can only scan thoes file extensions and if its not that specific file extension to skip the file?

Posted 5-Oct-11 15:59pm

Dale 2012

Updated 5-Oct-11 16:01pm

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Bun Leap_kh · Answer 1 · 2011-10-05T17:37:00

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I'm not clear about your question. But let see this link.

Posted 5-Oct-11 17:37pm

Bun Leap_kh

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Dale 2012 5-Oct-11 23:57pm

This code simply lists the files from a directory to a listbox which is good except I am only interested with certian file extensions and not every file. Also I wish to not need a listbox. In short how can I select a drive from lets say a combobox and then have a recrusive call run through only the selected file extensions (ex...... .exe .com .sys .ini ect ect) and not the other files such as .txt or .iso

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 6-Oct-11 1:07am

You missed one line right after the end of the code. This line explains how to filter by extension.
--SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 6-Oct-11 1:07am

Correct, a 5.
--SA

Dale 2012 6-Oct-11 2:27am

ok I have looked it over and I appologize for now seeing it but I have tried to use this code:

For Each file1 In Directory.GetFiles(dir(".exe"))

dir = string

Conversion from string ".exe" to type 'Integer' is not valid.

How do i overcome this error?