I have a system that's running an old FoxPro program which generates 8 character long DBF files. We make a back up of the program folder each day, but at 5pm the program has generated so many of these garbage dbf's that it's a nuisance. I would just set a del *.dbf in the back up script but there are a few dbf with letters in their name that are needed to run the program.
Files are located in F:\Clean This\
Any numerically titled .dbf files need to be deleted
Any alphabetically titled .dbf file should be left alone
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
objStartFolder = "F:\Clean This\"
Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(objStartFolder)
Set colFiles = objFolder.Files
collide = "ABCEDFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
For Each objFile in colFiles
If UCase(objFSO.GetExtensionName(objFile.name)) = "DBF" Then
num = 1
For num = 1 to 26 'find files with names start with # 0-9
If Left(objFile.Name,1) = Left(collide,num) Then
Wscript.Echo "Save " & objFile.Name
Else If int(Left(objFile.Name,1)) > 0 Then
Wscript.Echo "Delete!"
End IF
End If
Next
End If
Next
As you can tell the If statements can be done better, I'm unsure how to better work it out. The two Wscript.Echo commands are just placeholders because if anything else I can't get find a suitable delete function that would work in a dos environment (I've already tried kill, no).
Suggestions and improvements would be much appreciated!