Does searchPattern in GetDirectories not recognize case differences?

[sherifffruitfly]

I want to return all directories fitting the pattern "v*", but NOT
include anything that starts with a capital "V". How can I do this?

tia!

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

I want to return all directories fitting the pattern "v*", but NOT
include anything that starts with a capital "V". How can I do this?

With Windows & NTFS then v.txt and V.txt is the same file, so would
it make sense to consider them different ?

Arne

 

[Peter Duniho]

I want to return all directories fitting the pattern "v*", but NOT
include anything that starts with a capital "V". How can I do this?

You'd have to do it explicitly, and frankly doing so wouldn't make much
sense, since the file system itself is case-insensitive. It stores case,
but you can't have two different files or directories that have names
differing only by case.

Pete

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

With Windows & NTFS then v.txt and V.txt is the same file, so would
it make sense to consider them different ?

If you really want it I guess you can get all files and make
your own case sensitive comparison.

Arne

 

[sherifffruitfly]

You'd have to do it explicitly, and frankly doing so wouldn't make much
sense, since the file system itself is case-insensitive. It stores case,
but you can't have two different files or directories that have names
differing only by case.

Pete

Ah - I hadn't realized - they're displayed "cased" in Windows
Explorer.

Ok then - does searchPattern permit regex matching?


Thanks for pointing out the case insensitivity of directories/files
all!

 

[Peter Duniho]

[...]
Ok then - does searchPattern permit regex matching?

I'm reasonably sure it doesn't. It just supports, as far as I know, the
same pattern-matching available via the Windows shell.

Frankly, the search pattern parameter is really just a convenience
parameter. It would be trivial for you to write a custom method that
takes the full directory results and runs whatever search you want on it,
including some sort of Regex-based matching if that's what you want.

Pete