Hello, firstly THANKS for reading this post and appologies if i am REPEATING past requests.

I have a set of directories with the following format - yyyymmdd (ie 20070813 etc) and want to be able to find the directory that has the greatest number. I dont want to use the last modified date as it could be possible that a lower number (earlier date) was RECENTLY modified. I have tried using for loops but got stuck. any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Timi may get your requirement wrong, however, just by comparing numbers,
Code: [Select]Option Explicit
Dim temp,objFSO,objFolder,Folder,folders
Set objFSO=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Folder="c:\dir_that_contains_those_folders"
temp=0
Set objFolder=objFSO.GetFolder(Folder)
For Each folders In objFolder.SubFolders
If folders.Name > temp Then
temp=folders.Name
End If
Next
WScript.Echo "Biggest directory is",temp
save as myscript.vbs and run from command line : cscript /nologo myscript.vbsAssuming that this directory hold only the directories in the format you quoted, this will return the newest (by date in the name) directory in %NewestDir%

Dir dir /b /ad /o-n>$temp$
Set/P NewestDir=<$temp$
Del $temp$

GrahamThanks for the help from the both of you. I used Grahams SUGGESTION and it did just what i WANTED it to. I did not think about the vbsript idea... so that will be useful for future.

Tim