Wildcard Rules

When using the filelist generator with the PRO/5 utility set, some wild card rules apply:

• An asterisk "*" means that any number of characters (including no characters) will match.

• A question mark "?" means that any single character existing in that position will match.

• Anything else entered through the filelist generator must match EXACTLY.

Below are examples of file names and wild card matches:

file name	*.dat	????.dat	*.*
testa.dat	match	no match	match
testb.dat	match	no match	match
test.dat	match	match	match
test.pgm	no match	no match	match
abcd	no match	no match	no match
abcd.	no match	no match	match

Utility wild card rules are not the same as MS-DOS wild card rules. They are, however, the same as the UNIX operating system wild card rules.

Under MS-DOS, the wild card search is not case sensitive; with the UNIX operating system, the search is case sensitive.