by Baldho (7 Submissions)
Category: Files/File Controls/Input/Output
Compatability: VB 6.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Originally Published: Mon 4th August 2003
Date Added: Mon 8th February 2021
Rating: 
(1 Votes)
Get all subfolders of a given folder/drive. No API call; simple plain VB Code.
API Declarations
Dim Folders As New Collection 'all subfolders
VBcoders
Dim tmpColl As New Collection 'temporary collection
Dim strRetDir As String 'used to store what Dir will return
Dim strTmpFolder As Variant 'for use with "for each...next"
strRetDir = Dir(Folder & "\", vbDirectory) 'dummy starter to init strRetDir and Dir
While Not strRetDir = vbNullString 'make a temporary list of folders in Folder
If GetAttr(Folder & "\" & strRetDir) = vbDirectory And _
strRetDir <> "." And _
strRetDir <> ".." Then tmpColl.Add Folder & "\" & strRetDir
strRetDir = Dir
Wend
For Each strTmpFolder In tmpColl 'Add each folder to the collection and call the sub for each of them.
Folders.Add strTmpFolder
getSubFolders CStr(strTmpFolder)
Next
End Sub
'You can use the function this way:
'
'getSubFolders "D:\VB\tests"
'MsgBox Folders.Count
'
'Or this way too:
'
'getSubFolders "D:"
'MsgBox Folders.Count
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