File File Mask/Wildcard

Some Session class methods manipulating files accept a file mask/wildcard rather than a path. The methods include:

• Session.GetFiles;
• Session.PutFiles;
• Session.RemoveFiles.

To avoid the methods to interpret the special characters in the path as a mask, use the Session.EscapeFileMask method to escape the special characters. This is particularly important, when you use variable paths.

For example, if your file is named filewithstar*.txt, passing such name directly to Session.GetFiles would download all files with name starting filewithstar and .txt extension, not only filewithstar*.txt. The Session.EscapeFileMask converts the name to unambiguous mask filewithstar[*].txt, that matches only the filewithstar*.txt.