Loop files in specified folder and perform action on individual files Topic is solved

[Bones23]

HI

Sorry if I'm being dense here, I've searched the forums and looked at the help pages and am struggling to work this out.

The scenario: I have a list of files in a folder which I want to individually open, perform an action, then close again. My working code is:

FileSelectFolder, MyFolder ; Ask the user to pick a folder.
msgbox, %MyFolder%
Run, "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroRd32.exe" "%MyFolder%\blank.pdf"

What I can't work out is how to loop the file names into a variable so instead of "%MyFolder%\blank.pdf" but I require "%MyFolder%\%MyFile% with each iteration of the loop amending the MyFile variable to the next file name in the folder

I am only just beginning to use AHK so any guidance would be greatly appreciated

[Bones23]

Ok so I think I have now realised I don't need to assign the file name to a variable because the File-Loop will automatically do this for me: I have now amended my code to read:

FileSelectFolder, MyFolder ; Ask the user to pick a folder.
msgbox, %MyFolder%
Loop, Files, %MyFolder%
{
msgbox, %A_LoopFileFullPath%

;The below line works to open Adobe DC
Run, "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroRd32.exe" "%MyFolder%\%A_LoopFileName%"

[Xeo786]

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FileSelectFolder, MyFolder ; Ask the user to pick a folder.
Location := MyFolder "\*.pdf" ; loop thought pdf only
Loop, files, %Location%, R
	Run, %A_LoopFileFullPath%

see loop, files for examples

[Bones23]

Thanks Xeo,

I realised I was running an old version AHK and the syntax I was using from the help guide was for a more recent version. I have amended to the older versions syntax and is now working like a treat