Sorry, I've done this under DOS, Win32 and Java, but not under Linux but I'm sure its the same. There's bound to be a function that'll return a list of all files in the current directory. Then it's simple programming to see which of them fits the wildcard. Then once you have a list of files to play you just open the file and do stuff etc. If you're really lucky there may be functions under Linux to return a list of files that match the wildcard but I'n not sure. Oh, and I'm assuming you know how to program. In case you don't, every C/C++ program has a function called main. Main has two parameters - the number of command line parameters and an array of strings containing the parameters - this is the operating system's doing. Hope this satisfies your curiosity. Saqib ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <gnowak1@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 10:18 PM Subject: ot, a programming question > Hi all, > > There is something that's been eating away at my cariousity for the last few days, and I just had to ask the below. > Say you run a program such as mpg123 or any other program which minipulates files, and you pass it *.*, or my?.mp3 to open. How does it parce that to get a list of files that match *.* or my?.mp3? I tried looking for mpg123 code that does that, but couldn't find it. > Could someone please enlighten me, I'm very much interested. Thanks. > Greg > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
