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Re: Alternative to QCLSCAN?
Sorry about that. Yes, the '*' is the wildcard. '*.xls' was what I was using for an example. It would also have to work for things like 'info*.xls' and '*info.xls'. The users are entering these 'patterns'.
I will have to try adding logic to drop the wildcard if it is in the first spot. Actually I am even having trouble getting the QCLSCAN to return a "found" for the pattern of '0*.txt' in a string of '001Test.txt' using the '*' as a wildcard. Back to playing with it.... 

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  7. Alternative to QCLSCAN? (Scott Johnson)

Is there an alternative to the QCLSCAN API?  I need to scan incoming
filenames from the readdir IFS API for matches to things like "*.xls".
QCLSCAN does not allow the "*" in the first spot.


I'm confused... what "first spot"?

I can call QCLSCAN with a string that has '*' in the first character and with a 
search pattern with '*' in the first character. Either will return the correct 
position.

Can you give a more complete explanation? Are you wanting to use the '*' as a wild-card? 
If so, why not scan for ".xls" instead and leave the '*' off?

Tom Liotta

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