MatchType Enum

Definition

Namespace:

System.IO

Assemblies:

netstandard.dll, System.Runtime.dll

Specifies the type of wildcard matching to use.

C#

public enum MatchType

Inheritance

Object

ValueType

Enum

MatchType

Fields

Name	Value	Description
Simple	0	Matches using '*' and '?' wildcards. * matches from zero to any amount of characters. ? matches exactly one character. *.* matches any name with a period in it (with Win32, this would match all items).
Win32	1	Match using Win32 DOS style matching semantics. '*', '?', '<', '>', and '"' are all considered wildcards. Matches in a traditional DOS / Windows command prompt way. *.* matches all files. ? matches collapse to periods. file.??t will match file.t, file.at, and file.txt.

Applies to