API, skip temp files

I have a macro that will perform several operations on all the
documents in a selected folder but it also selects all the temp files
that are left over after a crash so I am trying to find a way to have
the temp files skipped. I would like to use some code that will skip
the file if the file name includes any special characters (for example
~ and $). Can anyone explain how to do this? Or is there a better way
to handle this? Of course I could always just delete all the temp files
prior to running the program but I would like for the user to not have
to worry about doing that.

Thanks

Sam

 

My first thought is that as you get to each file, check for the presence of
those characters (instring function?) and then skip to the next one in the
list if you do find them.

WT

 

What are you using to search the file system?

 

Thanks Wayne, that worked. I am not an educated programmer and was
not aware of the instr function. I set it up so that if instr returns
zero (character not found) the file is processed otherwise the file is
skipped.


Thanks again

 

Sam,

You would also write an old school bat routine that will automatically
delete those files. Ok, actually, you could do it in S/W Api too, but
will be a bit more involved. Can macros call *.bat files?

Matt