*.* is not * (with 15 characters in this title)

When using file input I found that some files were not made available, because they had no suffix. These are text files with no dot, just a name and date like “XX 26-03-16”

Selecting All files did not make them available because the wildcard used is “*.*” not “*” so apparently it wants the “.”. I had to rename the file with a suffix or drag it in. Is this easily fixed? On Mac or Linux I have a habit of not suffixing text files which are uniform in nature and essentially identified by their enclosing folder.

Do you mean:

  • when browsing for a new Input item?
  • in batch processing?
  • somewhere else?

On Windows or Mac?

Mac, as indicated.

Open EDT, click “From File”. In the dialog choose for file type “All files (*.*)”

If you have the following three files, “dot.dot”, “dot.” and “nodot” then only the first two will be available with the third still greyed.

This is expected behaviour in Unix (which MacOS is) as you can see in Terminal using ls with the same wildcard. Using “*” shows all files (default for ls). Thus an “All files” wildcard should be “*”

Understood. I will look into it.

I have fixed this so that it defaults to ‘*’ on Mac. The fix will be in the next release. Thanks for suggesting.

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This is now fixed in v2.11.1. Thanks for reporting it.