Re: Alternative to QCLSCAN?

[Scott Johnson <sjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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....

--
 Thanks,
     Scott J

qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >   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