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FindPart and wildcards

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Claudio Oliveira9-2-2005 13:35 UTC

A simple question: how do I work with wildcards and "FindPart" ("strutils" unit) function?

If I use

writeln(FindPart('de?','abcdefgh'));

i'll got "4", but if I use

writeln(FindPart('de*','abcdefgh'));

I'll got "0". Why? How can I use the asterisk wildcard?

Thanks a lot!
Claudio