Manual:DIL Manual/strdir()

Function:  stringlist strdir( match : string ) ;

  match
         The wild card file you want to match or '*' for all.
  return
         a Stringlist with all the filenames that match the 'match' argument.

The 'match' argument uses the same wild cards as the Linux 'ls' command
so the following will work.

  *
         Match any character or group of characters
  ?
         Match one of any character
  [...]
         Match one of a set of characters

Example:

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"corpse*" matches:  corpse.10938 corpse.whistler corpseofwhistler ...
"corpse?" matches corpse1 corpses corpse5 ...
"[abc]*" matches ability about cost back ...
"[a-z]*" about zoo man father ...
"start[nm]end" matches startnend startmend

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Example DIL:

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dilbegin wanted ();
var
        wantedlist:stringlist;
        templist:stringlist;
        i:integer;
        ln:integer;
code
{

        wantedlist := strdir ("dead*");

                i := 0;
                ln := length (wantedlist);

        while (i < ln )
                {
                templist := split (wantedlist.[i],".");
                sendtext (templist.[1]+" wanted dead!&n",self);
                i:=i+1;
                }

quit;
}
dilend

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The previous DIL would be an example of a command to check the wanted dead
players on the VME if you saved the files with the first word being
'dead' and separated it with a '.' and the players name. For example if
'whistler' was wanted dead  the file name would be 'dead.whistler'