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Clarify documentation about wildcard support for file name masks

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Using the ECL IDE in both Dataland and Production.

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Hello!  I'm looking for assistance with the standard ECL library function STD.File.RemoteDirectory().  The documentation referring to the "mask" parameter is a little vague and I was hoping to get some guidelines as to what syntax/regex to use for this parameter and maybe have that added to the ECL Standard Library documentation.  Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.  If the only meta-characters available for the mask are "?*", could the syntax be expanded to at least something like the Scooter Software: http://www.scootersoftware.com/v4help/index.html?file_masks.html

 

Also we've created another JIRA for this same issue, but was told it could be on the wrong JIRA system:  https://jira.rsi.lexisnexis.com/browse/EUA-27

 

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https://github.com/hpcc-systems/HPCC-Platform/pull/10466

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Created August 18, 2017 at 3:32 PM
Updated September 28, 2017 at 8:32 AM
Resolved September 28, 2017 at 8:32 AM

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Jim DeFabia September 27, 2017 at 6:43 PM

suggested: ... I would personally call Std.File.RemoteDirectory() with a currently-supported mask that returns at least as much as you need (and probably more), then post-filter the results with REGEXFIND() to narrow down the results.  That may be somewhat less problematical than calling Std.File.RemoteDirectory() multiple times.

Richard Chapman September 27, 2017 at 2:15 PM

File wildcarding via * and ? is pretty standard... we can update the docs to make it clear what is supported here.

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