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ADIR, SYS(2000) and Filer all returned wrong results
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01/12/2006 10:23:21
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8 SP1
OS:
Windows XP
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01173982
Message ID:
01174102
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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


Then how come it was almost working correctly? E.g. if I search for *something*.ext, in the list of files it finds most of the files match the mask specified and only few don't match?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.


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