>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 =).

What about the native LIKE() and LIKEC() functions in VFP, which uses exactly the same wildcarding conventions as the DOS file wildcards? For example:

IF LIKE("_*.?A?",cFilenameToTest)
* the wildcard matches up
ENDIF


LIKEC() works in a similar fashion but supports double-byte character formats.

>
>
>>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