How can i find total no of files in a directory ..using fileconnection

Question

how can i find total no of files in a directory.
currently iam using
Enumeration enum = fileconn.list(); and by iterating iam getting count.
but the application is getting stuckup when the number of files in the directory is large.
Is there any alternative. please help.
thanks in advance.

Answer 1

HI,
this is a simple example with a cursor over user_tables view:
set serveroutput on
DECLARE
   CURSOR c_test IS
      SELECT table_name FROM user_tables;
   type t_reg is table of varchar2(30);
   l_reg t_reg;
BEGIN
   OPEN c_test;
   fetch c_test bulk collect into l_reg;
   dbms_output.put_line(c_test%ROWCOUNT);
END;
/Output:
SQL>
SQL> set serveroutput on
SQL> DECLARE
  2     CURSOR c_test IS
  3        SELECT table_name FROM user_tables;
  4     type t_reg is table of varchar2(30);
  5     l_reg t_reg;
  6  BEGIN
  7     OPEN c_test;
  8 
  9     fetch c_test bulk collect into l_reg;
10 
11     dbms_output.put_line(c_test%ROWCOUNT);
12  END;
13  /
42
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed
SQL> Regards,
Edited by: Walter Fernández on Nov 29, 2008 8:59 AM - Adding output...