FindFirstFile wildcards?

[joakley]

Hi,

I'd like to use FindFirstFile to return a HANDLE to a list of files that have an extension *.abc where a,b and c are i the range 0-9. I think that I can only use the * and ? wildcards when calling the function, eg:
hFind_klarf = FindFirstFile( "*.???", &dataFind);

Does anyone know of a clever work around? It would be really appreciated. It would be great to use ranges with this function, or even just the "#" symbol.

Thanks in advance,

Jonathan.

jonathan.oakley@alumni.ethz.ch

 

[chiph]

I don't think there's another way to do this, as the FindFirstFile depends on the filesystem wildcards (*, ?). So you can't pass it a regular expression, or anything. Which, IMO, would be a nice thing to have.

Chip H.

 

[joakley]

Thanks for the response Chip. It's like I thought. So I guess I'll have to go for the exhaustive work around.

Cheers,

Jonathan.