>>>>>>You can't use [*g*.*] as a mask. You always will get a whole folder. try even in command prompt (old DOS) window:
>>>>>>DIR *g*.*
>>>>>>What you want? A file that have G somewhere in the name?
>>>>>
>>>>>Yes, but not in the extension part. Anyway, I think I can always call this program with extension, so this problem becomes mute. But I was a bit surprised to see this behavior.
>>>>
>>>>But this is the usual behavior, that mask [*G*.*] is equal to [*.*], you get ALL files, no matter where you use it - ADIR(), SYS(2000), DIR, no matter what language you will use. If you know what letter must be [G] you can use [???G*.*] if the [G] is third letter.
>>>
>>>That's not true for ADIR. It returns files containing G before the extension, e.g. in the file part.
>>
>>HA! This is something new to me :-)
>>Thank you, I learned something today.
>>I always thing that that way works all file searching functions that allow wildcards in them.
>>Because I had a bad experience with that from my CLIPPER days I never tried this :-)
>
>I have a folder with 39 files in it.
>
>I tried this:
>

CLEAR
>lcPath = "C:\testdir"
>lcSkeleton = "*E*"
>lcFile = SYS(2000,ADDBS(m.lcPath) + m.lcSkeleton)
>
>lnI = 0
>DO WHILE NOT EMPTY(m.lcFile)
>  m.lnI = m.lnI + 1
>  ?m.lcFile
>  lcFile=SYS(2000,ADDBS(m.lcPath) + m.lcSkeleton,1)
>ENDDO
>?m.lnI

>
>I got 21 files. So it is finding files with an E anywhere in the file name.
>
>When I changed lcSkeleton = "*E*.*"
>
>I got the same 21 files. The "." is ignored because 1 of the files returned by both is:
>
>VNC-4_1_1-X86_WIN32 with .EXE as the extension.

Do you have a folder with more than 13000 files? If yes, try there.