Searching for files

[brechtjah]

Hi,
I'm also at work at a program where you can store synonyms in. Although I'm getting one problem, I want the user to enter a word (the word he's looking for) in the textbox. However, I also want if the user enters for instance: "e", he gets all the files that start with "e", so I guess this is something with the *-sign. I've tried this:

If My.Computer.FileSystem.FileExists(Application.StartupPath & "\" & strZoekWoord & * & ".scb") = True Then

However, this does not seem to work , I really don't know what keywords I should use on google. So I thought I just as well asked here
Hope you guys know what to do.

Thanks

 

[jshultz]

Using the code you posted, it would not work. You would want to iterate over the files in whatever folder you are looking in, get the file name and check if the file_name.Text.StartsWith(strZoekWoord). If you want it to also have the .scb file extention check that as well.

 

[brechtjah]

Can I get a pushing start on how to iterate over the files please?

 

[brechtjah]

bump, been looking on a lot of sites, found nothing that helps me...