From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-01-14T19:00:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Counting the files in a directory....

2008/1/12, Siep Korteling <s.korteling@gmail.com>:
>
> > regards,
> >
> > Siep
>
> Should be read as:
>
> > require 'win32ole'
> > fso = WIN32OLE.new("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
> > folder = fso.GetFolder("C:/WINDOWS/system32")
> > puts folder.Files.count

Did you verify that this is faster?  I am skeptical because this call
does basically the same: it gets the list of files in the directory
and counts them.  I would expect a speedup only if there was an API
function that would directly return the number of files.

Kind regards

robert

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