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[olle]

Just now I was testing a script that used the IfExist command. I was using a line exactly like the one in the help file only with the extension .MSI (IfExist, D:\Docs\*.msi).

I had an .msi file in the directory that met the criteria and the test worked.

However, when I renamed the file and added a 1 to the end of the extension (e.g. test.msi1), the file was still found even though I was declaring to only look for .MSI

I renamed the file .MSI_TEST and it was still found. No matter what the extension was, as long as it started with .MSI the file was found.

The command seems to be actually behaving like this: IfExist, D:\Docs\*.msi*

I'm using AHK Ver: 1.0.48.03

AHK is great! Thought you would appreciate the info. Please have a look as time permits. Thanks.

[HotKeyIt]

This is odd

I could not find anything on FindFirstFile MSDN.

It looks like it will work only if * in file patterns is positioned 7 characters++ after last \

[haichen]

[Lexikos]

See 8.3 filename. A file named "test.msiblablabla" may in fact have an associated short filename "TEST~1.MSI", in which case it would be matched by *.msi.