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Wildcard cfquery & delete files?

Asked by cmistre in Cold Fusion Markup Language, ColdFusion Studio, ColdFusion Application Server

I have a situation where I have a very large directory of filenames, that are regulary imported via FTP automatically.

Since they are not imported via coldfusion, there isnt a database associated with which files belong to which records. The filenames themselves do contain names that allow me to associate them with their corresponding records, so I can query & retrieved the files as needed, but I am having trouble figuring out how to delete the files when the records become outdated.

I need to be able to do a an entire directory search of what is in the FTP folder against the records that are actually active in my database.

Is there a way I can wildcard delete files? For instance if my records are labeled from 1000-2000. The associated records for record 1000 are labeled 1000-1, 1000-2, 1000-3, etc.

What I need to do is check the files in the directory against record numbers and delete any files in the directory that do not have a corresponding record in the database. So if I run the code every week, it can wildcard delete any file that contains a record number in the filename that no longer exists in the live database.

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1. azadisaryev560,617
2. _agx_365,804
3. gdemaria245,773
4. duncancu...176,870
5. SidFishes165,676
6. Jones911118,336
7. Zvonko88,550
8. erikTsomik82,442
9. srikanthm...45,400
10. myselfran...32,928
11. zadoc32,761
12. Tomarse...30,762
13. mwvisa124,650
14. Plucka22,500
15. Mr_Nil21,608
16. pravinasar19,650
17. black0ps13,150
18. js_vaughan11,400
19. mplungjan11,000
20. albrandw...10,700
21. eszaq10,575
22. dgrafx10,100
23. clickitysplit9,250
24. s8web8,200
25. hielo8,080

1. gdemaria860,481
2. _agx_846,549
3. azadisaryev650,197
4. SidFishes575,941
5. Zvonko408,262
6. duncancu...242,563
7. SBennett218,923
8. erikTsomik159,897
9. Plucka153,881
10. Jones911146,248
11. zadoc142,564
12. hielo93,782
13. pmascari77,529
14. js_vaughan70,620
15. Jester_4867,845
16. srikanthm...67,452
17. Mr_Nil63,933
18. dgrafx61,250
19. angelIII42,818
20. pigmentarts42,698
21. eszaq42,639
22. Mause39,900
23. Tomarse...34,387
24. digicidal33,950
25. danrosent...33,200

Wildcard cfquery & delete files?

Asked by cmistre in Cold Fusion Markup Language, ColdFusion Studio, ColdFusion Application Server

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