_File$ is not behaving as expected, cannot determine why

[SMcNeill]

It's the use of the KILL statement.  

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a$ = _Files$("*.*")



Print 1, a$



t$ = "temp.tmp"

Open t$ For Output As #1

a$ = _Files$

Print 2, a$



Close

a$ = _Files$

Print 3, a$



Kill t$

a$ = _Files$

Print 4, a$

This may be intentional to prevent you from trying to open and access files that could no longer exist any longer.

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Best solution would probably be to read all those files into an array first, then process them after.