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• !!NEWS FLASH!!
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• Box with SrchNext Function Problem
• Dealing File and Directory Names that Contain Non Displayable Characters
• File Searcher requires WITZSRCH DLL
• Generic Searcher Ex to Find a File Recursively
• Get a List of Subfolders
• How to Search for Multiple File Types
• How to Skip a Directory
• Leading Dot in Directory Name
• Locate a Folder
• More than 100 Handles
• Search for Files and then Copy Them
• Search String With Whitepace
• Searcher - How to get Directories only
• Searcher Sort Order
• Searcher Updates Last Access Time
• SrchInit and Exact Matches
• Using SrchInit for 2 FileTypes
• Xcopy Only Newer Files

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Example: Search for Files and then FileCopy Them

Keywords:  search and filecopy

BoxOpen("File Finder","Initializing")

AddExtender("wsrch34I.dll")

file="winbatch.exe"
hand=srchInit("C:\",file,"","",16)

c=0

fh=FileOpen("c:\temp\whereitis.txt","WRITE")
dest="c:\temp\junker\"

while 1 
if FileExist(strcat(dest,file)) then FileDelete(strcat(dest,file))
if !DirExist(dest) then DirMake(dest)
a=srchNext(hand)          
  if a=="" then break  
  BoxOpen("Find File", a)
  Message("",a)
  FileCopy(a, dest, @false)
  FileWrite(fh,strcat(a,@crlf))
  c=c+1 
     
   
  
 ;Display(1,c,a)
endwhile

Message("Find Complete",a)
srchFree(hand)  

exit

Article ID:   W12558

Filename:   Search for Files and then Copy Them.txt

File Created: 2001:03:01:15:34:20

Last Updated: 2001:03:01:15:34:20