Modern Fs PatternWildcardAt

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PatternWildcardAt

Returns the offset of a pattern's first wildcard, or -1 if it has none.

Syntax

PatternWildcardAt( pattern )

Notes

• offset of the first wildcard, or -1

Examples

#import "std/fs"
using fs

'' The offset of the first wildcard, or -1 when the pattern is a plain
'' path with nothing to expand
print PatternWildcardAt( "src\*.tiko" )    '' 5
print PatternWildcardAt( "src\main.tiko" ) '' -1

'' What Glob uses to decide how much of a pattern is a fixed directory
'' prefix it can walk to directly

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Library: Filesystem Library
Category: Filesystem
Documented under: Glob