query regarding wild card operation

Hello

Can you please tell me how the wild card expansion is done in windows
machine.

For Example, if "test" is the executable and there are 1.prf, 2.prf
and 3.prf in the current directory. Test.exe is executable from c
source code.

Then it should expand in main(argc , argv[]) as follows :

../test -v *.prf

Argv[0] =test.exe

Argv[1]= -v

Argv[2] = 1.prf

Argv[3] = 2.prf

Argv[4] = 3.prf



In Solaris platform it will be expanded as shown above but in windows
it will just take as

D:\test.exe -v *.prf

Argv[0]= test.exe

Argv[1] = -v

Argv[2] = *.prf

Is there any method where we can expand wild card in windows machine as
shown for Solaris machine

Thanks for any help.

Regards.

It depends on how you are getting the command line and the compiler you are
using. Some functions for getting the command line get the expanded line,
others get it as entered. Some compilers do automatic expansion, others
leave it to the programmer, or perhaps it depends on an option in the
compile command.

It can also be affected by the shell in which the command line is entered -
in some cases the expansion occurs before the command is executed..
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"developer28" wrote in message
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Hello

Can you please tell me how the wild card expansion is done in windows
machine.

For Example, if "test" is the executable and there are 1.prf, 2.prf
and 3.prf in the current directory. Test.exe is executable from c
source code.

Then it should expand in main(argc , argv[]) as follows :

./test -v *.prf

Argv[0] =test.exe

Argv[1]= -v

Argv[2] = 1.prf

Argv[3] = 2.prf

Argv[4] = 3.prf



In Solaris platform it will be expanded as shown above but in windows
it will just take as

D:\test.exe -v *.prf

Argv[0]= test.exe

Argv[1] = -v

Argv[2] = *.prf

Is there any method where we can expand wild card in windows machine as
shown for Solaris machine

Thanks for any help.

Regards.

"developer28" wrote:

Hello

Can you please tell me how the wild card expansion is done in windows
machine.

For Example, if "test" is the executable and there are 1.prf, 2.prf
and 3.prf in the current directory. Test.exe is executable from c
source code.

Then it should expand in main(argc , argv[]) as follows :

./test -v *.prf

Argv[0] =test.exe

Argv[1]= -v

Argv[2] = 1.prf

Argv[3] = 2.prf

Argv[4] = 3.prf



In Solaris platform it will be expanded as shown above but in windows
it will just take as

D:\test.exe -v *.prf

Argv[0]= test.exe

Argv[1] = -v

Argv[2] = *.prf

Is there any method where we can expand wild card in windows machine as
shown for Solaris machine

In Unix systems, like Solaris, the shell expands wildcards, and the
program gets a list of files. In Windows (and DOS before it) the shell
does not perform this service. The program must expand the wildcard.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)

http://members.cox.net/slatteryt

On 23 Jan 2007 20:13:18 -0800, "developer28"
put finger to keyboard and composed:

Hello

Can you please tell me how the wild card expansion is done in windows
machine.

For Example, if "test" is the executable and there are 1.prf, 2.prf
and 3.prf in the current directory. Test.exe is executable from c
source code.

Then it should expand in main(argc , argv[]) as follows :

./test -v *.prf

Argv[0] =test.exe

Argv[1]= -v

Argv[2] = 1.prf

Argv[3] = 2.prf

Argv[4] = 3.prf



In Solaris platform it will be expanded as shown above but in windows
it will just take as

D:\test.exe -v *.prf

Argv[0]= test.exe

Argv[1] = -v

Argv[2] = *.prf

Is there any method where we can expand wild card in windows machine as
shown for Solaris machine

Thanks for any help.

Regards.

The following may be a workaround:

for %i in (*.prf) do D:\test.exe -v %i

- Franc Zabkar
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