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From: "Dr Richard A. O'Keefe" <ok@atlas.otago.ac.nz>
Subject: Re: Ada95 file management, (Rename, Wildcard)
Date: 1998/08/31
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Hans Marqvardsen wrote:
> 1: Is it a fact, that Ada95 has no language-defined procedure allowing
> you to rename files, or to search for wildcard filenames ?

There are no wildcard facilities in the C89, C++98, Pascal, Fortran 90,
or draft Smalltalk language standards.  So those languages have no
language-defined procedures for wildcard searches either.  Come to
think of it, I don't know _any_ international programming language
standards (other that the shell standard in POSIX.2) that cover
wild-card scans.  POSIX.2 also lists an interface that can be called
from other languages, the glob(3c) function, for example.

As for renaming, that's in POSIX.5, the Ada binding for POSIX.1.
It's called Rename, oddly enough.
Renaming and wildcards are *operating-system* features...