Topic: Wildfile Search File Name Extensions (1 of 2), Read 53 times Conf: Wildfile, Other macros From: Larry Radbill Date: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 05:48 PM i'm trying to use wildfile to process all files of type *.sas but i also have files of type *.sas7bdat .... when i ask wildfile to search for *.sas it returns files of both types. is there anyway to restrict wildfile so that it won't do this?

Topic: Wildfile Search File Name Extensions (2 of 2), Read 53 times Conf: Wildfile, Other macros From: Christian Ziemski Date: Thursday, January 04, 2001 03:07 AM That's a DOS/Windows problem. WILDFILE uses the DOS command "DIR" to get your filenames and that command fails here :-( Try it in a DOS box manually: Assume the four files - ADR.TXT - ADR.TXTOLD - ADR.TXT1 - ADR.TXT1OLD DIR *.TXT lists all the four files. But fascinating a DIR *.TXT1 lists only the last two files. And a DIR *.TX lists no files. So it seems that DIR behaves wrong if the search pattern contains 3 letters. Then it only checks the first three characters of the extension too (it seems to check the 8.3 short name only here). Unfortunately VEDIT/Wildfile has no chance to get around this. (At least I can't see one. Blame it on MS.) HTH Christian