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Remy Lebeau (TeamB) wrote:

> "?" is an invalid character for filenames.

Yes, indeed. And it can be used as a wildcard.

>>   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. 

Well if you read my post again then you will see that I reported that
FileExist DOES support wildcards. And that amazes me. The help does
not state it. FileExists would even find Unit1.cpp for FileName == "*nit.?".

 > If you need that, then use FindFirst() instead:

No I do not need wildcard matching. I need a file exist function
that reports if a file for a filename exists. The '?' in my
filename was unintentionally, caused by the fact that the filename was
generated by code. The intention of using FileExist was to get a false
for unvalid filenames. To my surprise FileExist does not care for unvalid
filenames, but allows wildcards in them.

>     TSearchRec sr;
>     if( FindFirst("drive:\\path\\" + FileName, faAnyFile & ~faDirectory, sr)
> == 0 )
>     {
>         // sr contains the first fileame that matched the wildcard mask.

Until now, my experience was that FindFirst/FindNext could NOT be used
with wildcards. I never succeeded to write code for that. But I will try
your suggestion.

>>      Memo1->Lines->LoadFromFile ( FileName );   // exeption!
> 
> You can't load a filename with wildcards in it.  You need to specify the
> EXACT file to load.

Yes of course. That was what I showed.

Thanks for the reply.

Hans.