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"Hans Galema" <dontusethis@dontusethis.nl> wrote in message
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> So it does support wildcards.

Not intentionally.  Borland probably just did not pay enough attention to
how FileFirstFile() actually works when they were designing the FileAge()
function, without realizing the side effect that would be introduced.

> The allowing of wildcards was unexpected behaviour for me.
> My own file_exist() function (as shown in my first post) has
> expected behaviour.

Only beause you were forcing the file system to actually open a file, which
can't be done with wildcards present.  Physically opening the file is not
necessarily the best way to test for a file's existance, though, because
there are many reasons why opening a file could fail even though the file
does actually exist, so you would be returning an inaccurate return value.

> Heee. There is nothing buggy in my code that generates
> the filename. It nicely places '?'s on occasions.

I would consider it buggy if it were producing a filename that you expected
to have a particular behavior but actually had a different undesirable
behavior instead.


Gambit