Re: Wild Card String Comparison

2008-08-28 Thread Timothy Grant
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:00 PM, W. eWatson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Timothy Grant wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 8:49 PM, W. eWatson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to do a search for a wild card string in another string. For example, I'd like to find v*.dat in a string called

Re: Wild Card String Comparison

2008-08-28 Thread Cameron Laird
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], W. eWatson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to do a search for a wild card string in another string. For example, I'd like to find v*.dat in a string called bingo. v must be matched against only the first character in bingo, and not simply found somewhere in

Re: Wild Card String Comparison

2008-08-28 Thread W. eWatson
Cameron Laird wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], W. eWatson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to do a search for a wild card string in another string. For example, I'd like to find v*.dat in a string called bingo. v must be matched against only the first character in bingo, and not

Wild Card String Comparison

2008-08-27 Thread W. eWatson
Is it possible to do a search for a wild card string in another string. For example, I'd like to find v*.dat in a string called bingo. v must be matched against only the first character in bingo, and not simply found somewhere in bingo, as might be the case for *v*.dat. -- Wayne

Re: Wild Card String Comparison

2008-08-27 Thread Sean DiZazzo
On Aug 27, 8:49 pm, W. eWatson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to do a search for a wild card string in another string. For example, I'd like to find v*.dat in a string called bingo. v must be matched against only the first character in bingo, and not simply found somewhere in bingo,

Re: Wild Card String Comparison

2008-08-27 Thread Timothy Grant
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 8:49 PM, W. eWatson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to do a search for a wild card string in another string. For example, I'd like to find v*.dat in a string called bingo. v must be matched against only the first character in bingo, and not simply found

Re: Wild Card String Comparison

2008-08-27 Thread W. eWatson
Timothy Grant wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 8:49 PM, W. eWatson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to do a search for a wild card string in another string. For example, I'd like to find v*.dat in a string called bingo. v must be matched against only the first character in bingo, and not

Re: Wild Card String Comparison

2008-08-27 Thread W. eWatson
Sean DiZazzo wrote: On Aug 27, 8:49 pm, W. eWatson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to do a search for a wild card string in another string. For example, I'd like to find v*.dat in a string called bingo. v must be matched against only the first character in bingo, and not simply found