FindFirstFile and Wildcards

[JoshT]

Anyone have some insight into the syntax behind the wildcards you can pass to FindFirstFile? I've noticed that passing "path\*" and "path\*.*" both cause all files and folders to be returned, where I would have expected the second to only return things with a dot somewhere in the name. No big deal, I guess.

Thanks,
Josh

[jim mcnamara]

There's a big discussion on this in MSDN.
For FindFirstFile -
* = replace with any character, at least one character. not a period
? = replace with one character or zero characters, not a period

This finds all the file with .htm

*.htm? - gets both .html & .htm
*. - gets directory files
*.* - all files except directories and files with no type extension

[JoshT]

Where is this on MSDN?

*.htm? - gets both .html & .htm

Isn't it limited by 8.3 filenames so *.htm still gets .html?

*.* - all files except directories and files with no type extension

This is definately getting directories and text files I have with no extension?

Thanks,

[jim mcnamara]

Start here - and no, it's not 8.3 names the api uses FAT32 and NTFS names, it's not a DOS call.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q130860

[JoshT]

I'm running Windows 2000 Pro SP2. Using *.htm matches both .htm and .html files...