Wildcard pattern matching

[RobC]

I have noticed that in the directoryInfo class a method named GetFiles(String) accepts a wildcard pattern as a parameter and uses this to match file names that exist in a directory. I want to use the pattern matching agorithm it uses. Why is it not exposed to public access?

Thank you.

[cody]

> I have noticed that in the directoryInfo class a method named
GetFiles(String) accepts a wildcard

pattern as a parameter and uses this to match file names that exist in a directory. I want to use the pattern matching agorithm it uses. Why is it not exposed to public

access?

It isn't exposed because the algorithm lies in the file system.
However the best way to go will be certainly regular expressions.

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[cody]

Iam not RegEx expert but I think you can simply replace * and ? with the
corresponding RexEx joker characters/sequences. Be sure that you escape
reserved regex characters/sequences in your string before passing it to a
regex method.

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Thank you Cody! BTW, mimicking file search wildcard patterns with regex is no easy task. Is this already written somewhere? Thanks.

"cody" wrote:

I have noticed that in the directoryInfo class a method named

GetFiles(String) accepts a wildcard

pattern as a parameter and uses this to match file names that exist in

a directory. I want to use the

pattern matching agorithm it uses. Why is it not exposed to public

access?

It isn't exposed because the algorithm lies in the file system.
However the best way to go will be certainly regular expressions.

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