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WILDCARDS

 
The WILDCARDS statement enables or disables wildcard support. Wildcards are characters that can be used in a filename as a template to select a group of files to be operated upon. A filename with wildcard characters in it will be compared with existing filenames using special rules and all filenames that "match" are acted upon. Under HTBasic, wildcards are supported only in the CAT statement.
 
If the WILDCARDS statement is executed, it will return an error because wildcarding is always on. The question mark "?" and the asterisk "*" are the wildcard characters.