That's right and correct (as per the original) - Russell Peters ----- Original Message ----- From: "Angus Johnson" <ajohnson@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 4:33 PM Subject: [delphizip] Re: At last ... (hopefully with the file) > > "something\books.doc" matches both "*books.doc" and "*.doc" (identical > to > > original) > > "something\else.doc only matches "*.doc" (again as per original) > > I am not certain what your matching with but if you look "*." matches > > anything before the dot whereas "*book." will only match anything ending > > "book" (before the dot). > > Obviously I did not make my concern clear so I'll try again. > > using - apath\*books.doc - as the pattern > would your code not also find - apath\anyname.doc - as a match > > Unfortunately, I don't have a C compiler installed so I can't test it > myself. > > Angus > > >