Thanks Nancy
But wilcards can also include '?' like "_*.?A?"
One way is to save it as a file in an empty directory and use aDir but it's "crude".
Hope someone has the code to detect for all possible combination =).
>Is it always the filename portion that you are wildcarding?
>
>
cStr = '*' + SUBSTR( cFileName, at('.', cFileName ) )
>IF ATC( cStr, cWildCardStr ) > 0
> *!* then it's there
>ELSE
> *!* then it's not
>ENDIF
>
>>Need a way to determine if a filename is a member of a set of wildcards
>>
>>ie
>>sample.dbf is a member of "*.dbf,*.cdx"
>>sample.old is not a member of "*.dbf,*.cdx"
>>
>>Thanks