>Is there any way to access the internal VFP functionality that does string comparisons with wildcards?
>
>I'd like to be able to tell whether these strings match:
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>"*.TMP" & "FOO.TMP"
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>"ARC???.*" & "ARCHIV.BAR"
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>... etc.
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>Clearly, VFP has this functionality for SYS(2000), and the WildCardMatch method of the calss browser, but is there any way I can get a hold of it?
>
>-- jas

SET EXACT OFF
?LEFT("ARC???.*",3) = "ARCHIV.BAR" && returns .T.
?"TMP" = RIGHT("FOO.TMP",3) && returns .T.