/*
 * @(#)TestWildcardExpansion.java
 *
 * Summary: Tests what sort of wildcard expansion happens automatically.
 *
 * Copyright: (c) 2009 Roedy Green, Canadian Mind Products, http://mindprod.com
 *
 * Licence: This software may be copied and used freely for any purpose but military.
 *          http://mindprod.com/contact/nonmil.html
 *
 * Requires: JDK 1.6+
 *
 * Created with: IntelliJ IDEA IDE.
 *
 * Version History:
 *  1.0 2009-04-08 - initial release
 */
// TestWildcardExpansion

package com.mindprod.example;

/*
 * try with:
 * java com.mindprod.example.TestWildcardExpansion *.*
 * java  com.mindprod.example.TestWildcardExpansion "*.*"
 * java  com.mindprod.example.TestWildcardExpansion s*.*
 * java  com.mindprod.example.TestWildcardExpansion .
 * java  com.mindprod.example.TestWildcardExpansion *.html
 * java  com.mindprod.example.TestWildcardExpansion afile.txt anotherfile.txt
 * java  com.mindprod.example.TestWildcardExpansion d?mmy.* (where you have dummy.* files and a dummy dir)
 * java  com.mindprod.example.TestWildcardExpansion t?mmy.* (where you don't have tummy.* files or a dummy dir)
 * java  com.mindprod.example.TestWildcardExpansion cert*.html
 * java  com.mindprod.example.TestWildcardExpansion "cert*.html"
 * java  com.mindprod.example.TestWildcardExpansion "cert\*.html"
 *
 * My discoveries: For Win2K:
 * Wildcards are automatically expanded before your program sees them.
 * Who does it? the JRE.  It does not happen in C exe or assembler com utilities..
 * You get a list of matching files INCLUDING matching directory names,
 * but not the files in those subdirectories. Since directories normally
 * don't have extensions, you won't see the problem with *.html but you will
 * with s*.* or *.*.
 * If the wildcard does not match anything, you get the raw wildcard.
 * The wildcard in quotes gives you the raw wildcard.
*/

/**
 * Tests what sort of wildcard expansion happens automatically.
 * <p/>
 * It is very simple. Just look at the main method code to understand
 * what it does and what you could use it for.
 *
 * @author Roedy Green, Canadian Mind Products
 * @version 1.0 2009-04-08 - initial release
 * @since 2009-04-08
 */
public class TestWildcardExpansion
    {
    // --------------------------- main() method ---------------------------

    /**
     * Echo command line arguments, along with any automatic expansion
     * Can be used to test wildcard expansion, quoting, or any other basic features
     * features of command line parsing.
     *
     * @param args whatever you want to test.
     */
    public static void main( String[] args )
        {
        System.out.println( args.length + " arguments" );

        for ( int i = 0; i < args.length; i++ )
            {
            // [ ] help prove no lead/trail blanks tabs etc.
            System.out.println( "[" + args[ i ] + "]" );
            }
        }
    }