Thanks Dennis. RBTI: From the help files for 'wildcards' (not CHKFILE); for review and correction if needed:
"The R:BASE wildcard characters are _ (one character) and % (one or more characters). The operating system wildcards are _ (one character) and % (many characters)." Cheers, Bruce -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: ChkFile in version 9.1 From: Dennis McGrath <[email protected]> Date: Thu, June 14, 2012 12:17 pm To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) File wildcards are always the same, that is not the issue. Look at the help. I believe wildcards produce inconsistent results using CHKFILE. Dennis McGrath Software Developer QMI Security Solutions 1661 Glenlake Ave Itasca IL 60143 630-980-8461 [email protected] From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Chitiea Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 2:14 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: ChkFile in version 9.1 Correct wildcard character? Bruce -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [RBASE-L] - ChkFile in version 9.1 From: [email protected] Date: Thu, June 14, 2012 11:59 am To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) Just upgraded a client from 7.6 to 9.1 32-bit (yeah, they waited too long to install and now they're already behind...) Something works in 7.6 but not in 9.1 SET VAR vcfilename = 'R:\DOCS\POTRAN\91002*.PDF' SET VAR vcount = (CHKFILE(.vcfilename)) Should return a 1 because there is a file 91002.PDF in that directory. This works in 7.6, but returns a 0 in 9.1. If I change it to: SET VAR vcfilename = 'R:\DOCS\POTRAN\91002.PDF' (no wildcard), then it works in 9.1. But I need the wildcard. It appears that 9.1 doesn't recognize the wildcard. Any thoughts? Karen
