Thread: File searching

Originally posted by fkheng
I would like to search a file or files whose names begin with a specified set of characters...

is that possible? something like a wild character...

Get the list of filenames. (That depends on your operating system.) Then use strncmp to compare what you have to what you're looking for.

That's not the most flexible way, but it does what you're asking without much work.

just use the code in the faq and run strstr