Given a valid path, this code will return the number of files in the specified directory.
Module
Option Explicit
'API constants
Public Const MAX_PATH = 260
Public Const INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE = -1
Public Const FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY = &H10
'API types
Public Type FILETIME
dwLowDateTime As Long
dwHighDateTime As Long
End Type
Public Type WIN32_FIND_DATA
dwFileAttributes As Long
ftCreationTime As FILETIME
ftLastAccessTime As FILETIME
ftLastWriteTime As FILETIME
nFileSizeHigh As Long
nFileSizeLow As Long
dwReserved0 As Long
dwReserved1 As Long
cFileName As String * MAX_PATH
cAlternate As String * 14
End Type
'API function calls
Public Declare Function FindFirstFile Lib "kernel32.dll" Alias "FindFirstFileA" (ByVal lpFileName As String, lpFindFileData As WIN32_FIND_DATA) As Long
Public Declare Function FindNextFile Lib "kernel32.dll" Alias "FindNextFileA" (ByVal hFindFile As Long, lpFindFileData As WIN32_FIND_DATA) As Long
Public Declare Function FindClose Lib "kernel32.dll" (ByVal hFindFile As Long) As Long
Public Function NumFiles(sPath As String) As Long
Dim f As WIN32_FIND_DATA
Dim hFile As Long
NumFiles = 0
'Add the wildchar to the search path
If Right(sPath, 1) <> "\" Then sPath = sPath & "\"
sPath = sPath & "*.*"
'start a file enum in the specified path
hFile = FindFirstFile(sPath, f)
If hFile = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE Then Exit Function
'Exclude subdirectories from count
If (f.dwFileAttributes And FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) = 0 Then NumFiles = 1
Do While FindNextFile(hFile, f)
If (f.dwFileAttributes And FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) = 0 Then NumFiles = NumFiles + 1
Loop
'Close the file search
FindClose (hFile)
End Function
Usage
Private Sub Command1_Click()
MsgBox NumFiles("c:\") & " Files in C:\"
End Sub