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Curious FindFile behavior [message #13589]

Wed, 25 November 1998 00:00

lesht
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Registered: November 1998

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I'm running IDL5.1 on an SGI (IRIX6.2). I'm using FindFile to create
an array of data filenames that I can pass to some processing code.
There are (as it turns out) 515 files in the directory I'm searching.
The filenames are all of the form xxxxxxxxx.xx.yymmdd.hhmmss.cdf. I
get the following from FindFile-

IDL> files=FindFile('*.*', COUNT=nf)
IDL> PRINT, nf
0
IDL> files=FindFile('*.cdf', COUNT=nf)
IDL> PRINT, nf
0
IDL> files=FindFile('*98*.cdf', COUNT=nf)
IDL> PRINT, nf
0
IDL> files=FindFile('*980*.cdf', COUNT=nf)
IDL> PRINT, nf
425
IDL> files=FindFile('*981*.cdf', COUNT=nf)
IDL> PRINT, nf
90

I don't see why cases 2 and (especially) 3 didn't result in nf=515.
Can anyone explain this? Thanks.

Barry Lesht
bmlesht@anl.gov

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		Curious FindFile behavior By: lesht on Wed, 25 November 1998 00:00
		Re: Curious FindFile behavior By: Martin Schultz on Fri, 27 November 1998 00:00
		Re: Curious FindFile behavior By: mallors on Thu, 26 November 1998 00:00
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