On 12/3/14, waldo kitty wrote:
> On 12/3/2014 5:09 PM, Bart wrote:
Windows.FindFirstFile however treats ? as exactly 1 character AFAIK.
And is I'm not mistake this was also the case with TP in the old days.
>>
Seems I was mistaken. Sorry for the confusion.
FF with mask 'x?.tst' wi
On 03.12.2014 23:09, Bart wrote:
On 12/3/14, Ralf Quint wrote:
On 12/3/2014 12:27 PM, Bart wrote:
Windows.FindFirstFile however treats ? as exactly 1 character AFAIK.
And is I'm not mistake this was also the case with TP in the old days.
A quick test in a Windows 8.1 command prompt:
I
On 12/3/2014 8:10 PM, waldo kitty wrote:
MatchesMaskList and its friends are in the Lazarus MASKS unit... since lazarus
is not available for OS/2, i'm not looking for it to happen... then there's the
difference in the way it operates compared to what is expected...
not "the way it operates"...
On 12/3/2014 5:48 PM, Tomas Hajny wrote:
On Wed, December 3, 2014 23:18, waldo kitty wrote:
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desirable in some cases... i just have to test it on OS/2 and see if i can
compile it... i can't do that with MatchesMaskList because the unit that
contains it is not available on OS/2...
Which
On 12/3/2014 2:09 PM, Bart wrote:
I don't dispute teh way cmd/command treats ? in dir, I merely stated
that the OS function FindFirstFile des not do it like that. (And so we
should not change FindFirst/FidNext behaviour.)
Well, I have no way/time to do a more extensive test right now, but I am
On Wed, December 3, 2014 23:18, waldo kitty wrote:
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> desirable in some cases... i just have to test it on OS/2 and see if i can
> compile it... i can't do that with MatchesMaskList because the unit that
> contains it is not available on OS/2...
Which unit is it, btw? Have you tried compiling
On 12/3/2014 5:09 PM, Bart wrote:
On 12/3/14, Ralf Quint wrote:
On 12/3/2014 12:27 PM, Bart wrote:
Windows.FindFirstFile however treats ? as exactly 1 character AFAIK.
And is I'm not mistake this was also the case with TP in the old days.
A quick test in a Windows 8.1 command prompt:
On 12/3/2014 3:27 PM, Bart wrote:
On 12/3/14, Ralf Quint wrote:
On any DOS based OS (that includes OS/2 and Windows), the "?" wildcard
character will find any character, including no character at all in that
position. So in your example, t?.txt will find t.txt and tx.txt but not
txy.txt. It wi
On 12/3/2014 3:02 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
On 12/3/2014 8:30 AM, waldo kitty wrote:
yes, i wrote t11.txt when i should have written t1.txt... my bad...
however on
OS/2 native
OS/2 with 4OS2 command interpreter replacement
OS/2 DOS native
OS/2 DOS with 4DOS command interpreter replacement
On 12/3/14, Ralf Quint wrote:
> On 12/3/2014 12:27 PM, Bart wrote:
>> Windows.FindFirstFile however treats ? as exactly 1 character AFAIK.
>> And is I'm not mistake this was also the case with TP in the old days.
>>
> A quick test in a Windows 8.1 command prompt:
I don't dispute teh way cmd/co
On 12/3/2014 12:27 PM, Bart wrote:
On 12/3/14, Ralf Quint wrote:
On any DOS based OS (that includes OS/2 and Windows), the "?" wildcard
character will find any character, including no character at all in that
position. So in your example, t?.txt will find t.txt and tx.txt but not
txy.txt. It w
On 12/3/14, Ralf Quint wrote:
> On any DOS based OS (that includes OS/2 and Windows), the "?" wildcard
> character will find any character, including no character at all in that
> position. So in your example, t?.txt will find t.txt and tx.txt but not
> txy.txt. It will not return any filename lo
On 12/3/2014 8:30 AM, waldo kitty wrote:
On 12/3/2014 3:41 AM, Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 03 Dec 2014, at 06:05, waldo kitty wrote:
can you help me understand the differences in the output of the
below program?
given these three filenames: t.txt t1.txt t11.txt
with mask t?.txt why does Matche
On 12/3/2014 6:16 AM, Tomas Hajny wrote:
Given the fact that OS/2 appeared in your listing, I can clarify the
difference. It comes from the fact that in case of FindFirst/FindNext, the
interpretation of wildcards is performed by the underlying operating
system whereas the routine mentioned by Bar
On 12/3/2014 3:41 AM, Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 03 Dec 2014, at 06:05, waldo kitty wrote:
can you help me understand the differences in the output of the below program?
given these three filenames: t.txt t1.txt t11.txt
with mask t?.txt why does MatchesMaskList not show t.txt and t11.txt like
p
On Wed, December 3, 2014 06:05, waldo kitty wrote:
> On 12/2/2014 5:12 PM, Bart wrote:
>> On 12/2/14, waldo kitty wrote:
>>>
>>> how do you process for multiple filemasks?
>>>
>>> eg: find ts??.sel and t???.sel for the same processing run
>>
>> Maybe I misunderstand the question but:
>> Use '*
On Wed, 3 Dec 2014, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
They do.
Wow. We are never to old to learn. :-) I'll have to take a closer look at
that functionality.
Regards,
Graeme
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On Wed, 3 Dec 2014, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On Tue, 2 Dec 2014, waldo kitty wrote:
how do you process for multiple filemasks?
eg: find ts??.sel and t???.sel for the same processing run
I don't think FindFirst and FindNext has that capability.
They do.
Michael.
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On Tue, 2 Dec 2014, waldo kitty wrote:
how do you process for multiple filemasks?
eg: find ts??.sel and t???.sel for the same processing run
I don't think FindFirst and FindNext has that capability. I would use the
AllMasks constant and then manually match using a simple regex that cater
On 03 Dec 2014, at 06:05, waldo kitty wrote:
can you help me understand the differences in the output of the
below program?
given these three filenames: t.txt t1.txt t11.txt
with mask t?.txt why does MatchesMaskList not show t.txt and
t11.txt like plain findfirst?
"?" means "a single
On 12/2/2014 5:12 PM, Bart wrote:
On 12/2/14, waldo kitty wrote:
how do you process for multiple filemasks?
eg: find ts??.sel and t???.sel for the same processing run
Maybe I misunderstand the question but:
Use '*' as mask for FindFirst/FindNext then use MatchesMaskList()?
can you hel
On 12/2/2014 5:12 PM, Bart wrote:
On 12/2/14, waldo kitty wrote:
how do you process for multiple filemasks?
eg: find ts??.sel and t???.sel for the same processing run
Maybe I misunderstand the question but:
Use '*' as mask for FindFirst/FindNext then use MatchesMaskList()?
i can't fin
On 12/2/2014 5:12 PM, Bart wrote:
On 12/2/14, waldo kitty wrote:
how do you process for multiple filemasks?
eg: find ts??.sel and t???.sel for the same processing run
Maybe I misunderstand the question but:
Use '*' as mask for FindFirst/FindNext then use MatchesMaskList()?
in the abov
On 12/2/14, waldo kitty wrote:
>
> how do you process for multiple filemasks?
>
> eg: find ts??.sel and t???.sel for the same processing run
Maybe I misunderstand the question but:
Use '*' as mask for FindFirst/FindNext then use MatchesMaskList()?
Bart
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how do you process for multiple filemasks?
eg: find ts??.sel and t???.sel for the same processing run
== snip filemask.pas ==
Program Filemasks;
Uses
SysUtils, StrUtils, Classes;
var
dirSR : TSearchRec;
flist : TStringList;
fmask : string;
begin
if paramstr(1) <> '' th
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