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echo: nthelp
to: Adam Flinton
from: Ellen K
date: 2004-02-11 16:54:48
subject: Re: DIR == Excel

You could probably do it using the VB/VBA FileSystemObject object model.

> From: Adam Flinton 
> Frank Haber wrote:
>> I could do this with 4DOS/4NT, if I stll had my chops.  Someone gave me a
> mess
>> of  CDs with folders containing thousands of alphanumeric filenames of 5-8
>> characters, with a uniform extension.  No, they're not digital pictures, but
>> the names are similar.
>> 
>> Anyone ever seen a sort of "report writer front end or filter
GUI," that
> could
>> take filenames, sort and blank-trim them, and output to tab- or
>> comma-delimited for import to a spreadhsheet, where further mangling will be
>> done?
>> 
>> There must be something in the camera or MP3/tunes areas that does this, no?
> You could load cygwin & then use bash/grep etc....
> Adam

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