WildCard

[lumpybanana247]

how could i use a wildcard like a * i want to use it for this

#include <errno.h>
#include <dirent.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;
#include <stdio.h>
 
 
int main ()
{
 
  if( remove("C:/Documents and Settings/Nathan/Desktop/gay/person.*") != 0 )
  //substite rmdir for remove to delete a file instead
  {
    perror( "Error deleting file" );
    cin.get();
}
  else
  {
    puts( "File successfully deleted" );
    cin.get();
}
  return 0;
 
  cin.get();
}
 

thanks

[lumpybanana247]

i mean somthing like a "*" that i could use like this

thing.*

so it could represent thing.txt thing.dat thing.html etc


any ideas?

[DeMan]

I'm not entirely sure why you would want to?
On many systems, editing a file creates a (sometimes temporary) file with a very similar name. This could get included and case problems if this were allowed.

[lumpybanana247]

I'm not entirely sure why you would want to?
On many systems, editing a file creates a (sometimes temporary) file with a very similar name. This could get included and case problems if this were allowed.

i guess ur right. i bet i was thinking of a differnt programing language. thanks anyway.

[AdrianH]

Wildcards are done though the shell (on Unix systems) or from within the app (Windows/DOS systems). There is no standard library for using wildcards. You would have to scan the directory contents and filter the files yourself.


Adrian