ADIR, SYS(2000) and Filer all returned wrong results

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ADIR, SYS(2000) and Filer all returned wrong results

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01/12/2006 10:23:21

Sergey Karimov
Serco Inc.
Reston, Virginia, United States

30/11/2006 22:56:09

Naomi Nosonovsky
Wisconsin, United States

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Forum:

Visual FoxPro

Category:

Coding, syntax & commands

Title:

Re: ADIR, SYS(2000) and Filer all returned wrong results

Environment versions

Visual FoxPro:

VFP 8 SP1

OS:

Windows XP

Database:

Visual FoxPro

Miscellaneous

Thread ID:

01173982

Message ID:

01174089

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Hi Naomi,

It's not a bug at all. You just use wildcards in a wrong way. If you open some old book about DOS you can read there:

Any characters following an asterisk in a filename or extension are ignored. Eg q*88.dat is treated the same as q*.dat

Regards,
Sergey

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