RE: [Dev-C++] Automatic wildcard expansion

[Ioannis V. <no...@ho...>]

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> From: dev...@li... 
> [mailto:dev...@li...] On Behalf 
> Of Abhijit Shylanath
> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 12:09 PM
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> Subject: [Dev-C++] Automatic wildcard expansion
> 
> 
> If I run
>     makedict e d:\code\makedict\dict.txt *.txt
> my program receives it as
> 
> -Start--------------------------
> arg 0: makedict
> arg 1: e
> arg 2: d:\code\makedict\dict.txt
> arg 3: dict.txt
> -Stop---------------------------
> 
> I recall that this behaviour is a GCC feature, and I can bypass it by
> quoting the argument, but how can I explicitly tell the 
> compiler to disable
> such expansion?


You can't rely on specific behaviour. This mechanism could not work at
all (in which case argc would be 0). You can make some trick to avoid
th/e above behaviour, like using a parameter -all instead of * and do
the job internally.


Ioannis

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