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I am trying to use _findfirst() Windows API in C to match file name using wildcards.
If I am passing ????????.txt then I am expecting it will match all the files in a directory with 8 characters only, but it matches more than that.
Is there any thing wrong with this usage?
I would guess that it is matching on the short name. On windows all files have a long name and a DOS 8.3 short name. Therefore “????????.txt” is effectively the same as “*.txt”.
Also on a pedantic note, _findfirst() is not part of the Windows API. Is it part of the Microsoft C run-time library.