-=> Quoting Jasen Betts to TONY PATER <=-


 JB> :: assuming you want to check the files in %folder do this ...

 JB> for x in (%folder%\*.*) do ( input %%firstline < %x
 JB> if %{at}index["%firstline",BFE] ne -1 call dosomething %x)

 JB> I've used call here instead of goto incase the folder contains more
 JB> than one file with the matching string, you'll need to replace
 JB> dosomething with a BTM to do whatever processing you want done. and you
 JB> can replace %folder% with any expression naming the folder .... (fyi
 JB> this way files will be closed) 
 JB> There are times when fileopen and findfirst can be useful, they are
 JB> very rare. I usually find for and input to be more convenient.

 Now that is worth looking into JB ..... as a keeeeewwll sub-routine
 as the folders contain many (but not all) files with the key 'BFE'.

 Many thanks
 Tony
 Sydney, Oz
 Mon 02/11/1998  0:17:06  


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