Hello,

I'm obviously missing the point, but the documentation on the GetFiles
method states that when a 3-character extension is supplied in the search
pattern it will match 3 or more characters. I've found this to be very
annoying and have often had to simply get a list of all files then manually
sift through them to locate those having exactly the 3-character extension
I'm looking for. Is there a way to turn off this "feature" in GetFiles so
that a 3-character extension means exactly a 3-character extension? Or maybe
I should be approaching this differently?

Thanks,
Ray

Ray,

And what about by instance .RA (real audio)

Cor

"Ray Mitchell" <RayMitchell_NOSPAM_@MeanOldTeacher.com> wrote in message
news:7AE0FF80-A736-4530-8065-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello,
>
> I'm obviously missing the point, but the documentation on the GetFiles
> method states that when a 3-character extension is supplied in the search
> pattern it will match 3 or more characters. I've found this to be very
> annoying and have often had to simply get a list of all files then
> manually
> sift through them to locate those having exactly the 3-character extension
> I'm looking for. Is there a way to turn off this "feature" in GetFiles so
> that a 3-character extension means exactly a 3-character extension? Or
> maybe
> I should be approaching this differently?
>
> Thanks,
> Ray

Ray,

And what about by instance .RA (real audio)

Cor

"Ray Mitchell" <RayMitchell_NOSPAM_@MeanOldTeacher.com> wrote in message
news:7AE0FF80-A736-4530-8065-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello,
>
> I'm obviously missing the point, but the documentation on the GetFiles
> method states that when a 3-character extension is supplied in the search
> pattern it will match 3 or more characters. I've found this to be very
> annoying and have often had to simply get a list of all files then
> manually
> sift through them to locate those having exactly the 3-character extension
> I'm looking for. Is there a way to turn off this "feature" in GetFiles so
> that a 3-character extension means exactly a 3-character extension? Or
> maybe
> I should be approaching this differently?
>
> Thanks,
> Ray

> "Ray Mitchell" <RayMitchell_NOSPAM_@MeanOldTeacher.com> wrote in message
> news:7AE0FF80-A736-4530-8065-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm obviously missing the point, but the documentation on the GetFiles
> > method states that when a 3-character extension is supplied in the search
> > pattern it will match 3 or more characters. I've found this to be very
> > annoying and have often had to simply get a list of all files then
> > manually
> > sift through them to locate those having exactly the 3-character extension
> > I'm looking for. Is there a way to turn off this "feature" in GetFiles so
> > that a 3-character extension means exactly a 3-character extension? Or
> > maybe
> > I should be approaching this differently?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ray
>
>
"Cor Ligthert[MVP]" wrote:

> Ray,
>
> And what about by instance .RA (real audio)
>
> Cor
>

Cor,

I'm not sure what you're telling me.

Ray

> "Ray Mitchell" <RayMitchell_NOSPAM_@MeanOldTeacher.com> wrote in message
> news:7AE0FF80-A736-4530-8065-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm obviously missing the point, but the documentation on the GetFiles
> > method states that when a 3-character extension is supplied in the search
> > pattern it will match 3 or more characters. I've found this to be very
> > annoying and have often had to simply get a list of all files then
> > manually
> > sift through them to locate those having exactly the 3-character extension
> > I'm looking for. Is there a way to turn off this "feature" in GetFiles so
> > that a 3-character extension means exactly a 3-character extension? Or
> > maybe
> > I should be approaching this differently?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ray
>
>
"Cor Ligthert[MVP]" wrote:

> Ray,
>
> And what about by instance .RA (real audio)
>
> Cor
>

Cor,

I'm not sure what you're telling me.

Ray

Peter,

I too spent some time on this, and I asked myself what is the reason for
this question.

Is it because that he wants to get all doc and docx files and that.

Then I remembered me all that went wrong with real audio files in past.
There were some with the name Rar as I remember it me well.

Therefore I replied in a question.

Maybe not the best thing, but I am born in area where that is often done to
give in fact an answer.

:-)

Cor

"Peter Duniho" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Sat, 09 May 2009 00:58:01 -0700, Ray Mitchell
> <RayMitchell_NOSPAM_@meanoldteacher.com> wrote:
>
>> [...]
>>> And what about by instance .RA (real audio)
>>
>> Cor,
>>
>> I'm not sure what you're telling me.
>
> I think he's asking if you have the same problem with (for example)
> two-character extensions. I'm assuming the answer to that would be "no".

Peter,

I too spent some time on this, and I asked myself what is the reason for
this question.

Is it because that he wants to get all doc and docx files and that.

Then I remembered me all that went wrong with real audio files in past.
There were some with the name Rar as I remember it me well.

Therefore I replied in a question.

Maybe not the best thing, but I am born in area where that is often done to
give in fact an answer.

:-)

Cor

"Peter Duniho" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Sat, 09 May 2009 00:58:01 -0700, Ray Mitchell
> <RayMitchell_NOSPAM_@meanoldteacher.com> wrote:
>
>> [...]
>>> And what about by instance .RA (real audio)
>>
>> Cor,
>>
>> I'm not sure what you're telling me.
>
> I think he's asking if you have the same problem with (for example)
> two-character extensions. I'm assuming the answer to that would be "no".

Peter,

Maybe I was missing the point, I was reading it that the pattern was 3 or
more characters.

For that I was replying.

Maybe wrong and should I have tested it, but because that is something
everybody can, I did not do.

Cor

Peter,

Maybe I was missing the point, I was reading it that the pattern was 3 or
more characters.

For that I was replying.

Maybe wrong and should I have tested it, but because that is something
everybody can, I did not do.

Cor