>Is anyone willing to submit code or link to code, or discuss logic that can predict the resulting file name when a command using copy file can be used with all variations of wildcard and character combinations.
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>I am talking about a destination expresion that is not as simple as *.* or *.odb, etc...
>
>For example the program might receive:
> lcSource = "*.*"
> lcDest = "P*.T*"
>
> COPY FILE (lcSource) TO (lcDest)
>
>OR
> lcSource = "*.D??"
> lcDest = "??V?*.?F?"
>
> COPY FILE (lcSource) TO (lcDest)
>OR
> WHATEVER
>
>I know I can do ADIR to obtain a list of files from the source. What would be the best way to predict the resulting file names for the specified destination expression.
>
>Any positive comment will be appreciated

Hi,

If the DOS COPY command works for you can constrict the statement and then execute it with RUN (!) command. But trying your examples I found that copy *.* P*.T* copies the files replacing the first letter of every file name and its extension with P and T. The second example also worked the way I was expected