actually, I figured out a way about 2.5 seconds after my post.  Forgot that
cfdirectory has a "filter" attribute and it does allow for wildcards.  Done
deal.  More than one way to skin a cat in CF.

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 1:12 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Try cfdirectory and then do a QoQ of the result set.
>
> *James E. Thomas*
> Baker Botts L.L.P. Web Developer
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> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On
> Behalf Of *Mark Davis
> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 15, 2010 12:34 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* [houcfug] finding a known filename with unknown extension
>
> I need to search a known folder, for a known filename, but with an unknown
> extension.  Could be pdf, rtf, doc, txt...any number of things.  I didn't
> have any luck trying to use a wildcard  in the FileExists() function.   I'd
> prefer to not iterate through all the files in the directory because there
> could be thousands in there, some quite large.  Any hints?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
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