On 12/3/2014 3:27 PM, Bart wrote:
On 12/3/14, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> wrote:
On any DOS based OS (that includes OS/2 and Windows), the "?" wildcard
character will find any character, including no character at all in that
position. So in your example, t?.txt will find t.txt and tx.txt but not
txy.txt. It will not return any filename longer than your search mask,
but return shorter filenames. This is (should be) a functionality of the
underlying system calls.
Windows.FindFirstFile however treats ? as exactly 1 character AFAIK.
And is I'm not mistake this was also the case with TP in the old days.
my command line testing shows otherwise... are you speaking of GUI related code?
i'm working only with the command line... no GUI stuffs at all...
C:\freepascal\projects\misc>cmd
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\freepascal\projects\misc>dir t*.txt
Volume in drive C is SQ004512V04
Volume Serial Number is DC02-9142
Directory of C:\freepascal\projects\misc
12/02/2014 11:31 PM 2 t.txt
12/02/2014 11:31 PM 2 t1.txt
12/02/2014 11:31 PM 2 t11.txt
3 File(s) 6 bytes
0 Dir(s) 50,785,431,552 bytes free
C:\freepascal\projects\misc>dir t?.txt
Volume in drive C is SQ004512V04
Volume Serial Number is DC02-9142
Directory of C:\freepascal\projects\misc
12/02/2014 11:31 PM 2 t.txt
12/02/2014 11:31 PM 2 t1.txt
2 File(s) 4 bytes
0 Dir(s) 50,785,431,552 bytes free
C:\freepascal\projects\misc>command
Microsoft(R) Windows DOS
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-2001.
C:\FREEPA~1\PROJECTS\MISC>dir t?.txt
Volume in drive C is SQ004512V04
Volume Serial Number is DC02-9142
Directory of C:\FREEPA~1\projects\misc
12/02/2014 11:31 PM 2 t.txt
12/02/2014 11:31 PM 2 t1.txt
2 File(s) 4 bytes
0 Dir(s) 50,785,423,360 bytes free
C:\FREEPA~1\PROJECTS\MISC>
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