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"Hans Galema" <dontusethis@dontusethis.nl> wrote in message
news:408d6cad$1@newsgroups.borland.com...

> There was a '?' in a FileName that was generated
> by code. The '?' was interpreted as a wildcard.

"?" is an invalid character for filenames.

>    AnsiString FileName = "Unit1.?";
>
>    if ( FileExists ( FileName ) ) // This will find Unit1.cpp or Unit1.h

You can't do wildcard matching like that.  FileExists() does not support
wildcards at all.  If you need that, then use FindFirst() instead:

    TSearchRec sr;
    if( FindFirst("drive:\\path\\" + FileName, faAnyFile & ~faDirectory, sr)
== 0 )
    {
        // sr contains the first fileame that matched the wildcard mask.
        // If multiple files match the mask, you will have to decide which
        // specific file you actually want to load.  Use FindNext() in a
        // loop to get the remaining matching filenames.

        FindClose(sr);
    }
    else
        // no matching filenames found...

>       Memo1->Lines->LoadFromFile ( FileName );   // exeption!

You can't load a filename with wildcards in it.  You need to specify the
EXACT file to load.


Gambit