> I wanted to know how to check to see if a file name fits the pattern
> IHOCS###, with ### being three numbers.  Is there a pattern matching
> function to do this?

John hit it with his pmatch() suggestion. Here is an untested script
fragment that should work:

  ...
  # assume $STDIN has been redirected to the output of LISTFILE,6 in
  # MPE syntax.
  setvar i finfo(hpstdin,'eof')
  while setvar(i,i-1) >= 0 do
     if pmatch("IHOCS###",word(input(),".")) then
        # this base filename matches, so ...
        # note: to make this script HFS aware just change the
        #       above line to:
        #       if pmatch("IHOCS###",basename(input())) then
     else ...
     endif
  endwhile

HTH,
  Jeff

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