Reading List of Files in a Directory

Hi,
I'm looking for some reference or perhaps an example of how to get LabView to show the files that are in a directory so that the user can choose the appropriate one to load in the run. Right now, I'm running my program with certain specific files in the directory and the list of files written into the program.
Thank you very much,
Rob Hal

I'm sure there are a number of example programs shipped with LV or that could be downloaded from the archives. Anyway, here is a quick example that read a directory content, fills a listbox, and display the selected file content as a string.
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