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From: Bill Findlay <findlaybill@blueyonder.co.uk>
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Subject: File name wild cards
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 21:45:25 +0100
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Can anyone point me to a portable way of doing wildcard filename lookups?

In Ada.Directories we have;

> type Search_Type is limited private;
> procedure Start_Search (Search: in out Search_Type;
> Directory: in String;
> Pattern: in String;
> Filter: in Filter_Type := (others =>  True));

etc
But the interpretation of Pattern is implementation defined.
Worse, I cannot find any interpretation in the GNAT documentation.

-- 
Bill Findlay