Wildcard search issue

[pol098]

This looks like a bug. My TCMD doesn't appear to handle wildcarding in the same way as the basic Windows command processor. Specifically, in a command prompt window
dir /s *.doc?
lists all .doc and .docx files, which is what I expect.

However I find that the TCMD 8.51a search on Win7/32 with *.doc? finds all .docx, but no .doc files (there are plenty). *.doc (without "?") finds .doc, but not .docx, as expected. I suppose something like "*.doc;*.doc?" would work around the issue, but I wouldn't expect to have to do that.

Best wishes.

PS: I might have got this wrong; DIR seems to behave oddly, and I'm not sure what's right. In a directory with a .VMX and a .VMXK file, I find that
DIR *.vmx returns BOTH (which I didn't expect); but
DIR *.VM returns neither (which I do expect). It seems that DIR treats extensions of 4 or more characters (i.e., not possible 8.3 format) differently than shorter extensions. The "?" wildcard doesn't come into this.

So I'm not sure what TCMD should do with *.DOC? Maybe *.doc? should not return files with extension .DOC (although DIR *.DOC? definitely does returns both .DOC and .DOCX, as I said).

I'm sorry if this is confusing, I think it is the topic more than my mode of expression.

[petermad]

From TC's help:

A question mark ? stands for exacly one character, and an asterisk * stands for any number of characters

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So just use *.doc* in stead of *.doc?

And yes, this is different from Windows' command line behaviour.

[pol098]

From TC's help:

A question mark ? stands for exactly one character

So just use *.doc* in stead of *.doc?

And yes, this is different from Windows' command line behaviour.

Thanks, *.doc* does find them all. The "standard" behaviour of DIR is so confusing (see the PS to my original post) that it's not worth any other program trying to follow it. The workaround allows in a few irrelevant files (obviously this is not just for doc[x]) like

c:\Windows\winsxs\Manifests\x86_microsoft-windows-s..docs-main.resources_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_es-es_636a723ac08eeecf.manifest

Just for curiosity I tried another searcher, UltraSearch, which finds .DOC files with *.doc? Just the way it is, can't be called a bug for either TCMD or US.

[solid]

That "standard" DIR behavior got changed few times since DOS days, so it cannot be called standard