Re: Dos comands

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:49:05 +0200, "Maarten Wiltink"
<maarten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>"J French" <erewhon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:42b7c02a.177091581@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 01:37:44 +0200, "didi" <didi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>
>>> Yes thanx I know for this...
>>> I need more features if there.
>>> Are there other characters that helps me in the search?
>>
>> Dir AB?.*
>>
>> Returns all files with 3 digit prefix starting with 'AB'
>>
>> There are only two wildcard characters '?' and '*'
>
>It is a slight relief to realise that the meant characters
>were (probably) ASCII characters, not pedantic personalities.

Or even non-pedantic ones ... ?

I'm not sure what DiDi is really after

>Fileglobs, as I think the correct term is, are rather limited
>things. You can do your own RE matching but you'll have to
>assemble it from parts. That said, there are probably libraries
>that mimic normal directory access but using regular expressions
>(other people having assembled them from parts).

I just love the idea of users entering Reg Expressions

I think that there is some sort of DOS file matching emulation stuff
in one of the Delphi libraries, but I'm a bit wary of sending him off
at a tangent to what he wants.
.

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