Question

I am looking for more documentation on the find() method in the folder class. I am getting mixed results with …find(“.pdf”) and am looking for a reliable way to find pdf files in the folder.

Answer 1

If you are getting too many results that aren’t necessarily pdfs, maybe try further filtering the result set by checking that the file name extension ends in .pdf.

var files = myFolder.find(".pdf");
var pdfs = [];
for (var i in files) {
  var name = files[i].getName();
  var ext = name.substr(-4); // gets last 4 chars of the name
  if (ext == ".pdf") {
    pdfs.push(files[i]);
  }
}