Pass a variable into File function in for loop cycle

[franklin91]

My problem is this: I cannot pass variable inside a for loop, it seems that it does not recognize the variable. It takes the string with the variable, but not the variable value. This is my code

code:
!define FORMAT "XY 2018|XY 2019"



!include "LogicLib.nsh"

!include "Explode.nsh"



# set the name of the installer

Outfile "example.exe"



# create a default section.

Section



${Explode}  $0  "|" "${FORMAT}"

${For} $1 1 $0

    Pop $2

    !define PATH_OK "Z:\XY\Doc\List\*$2*"

    File "${PATH_OK}"

${Next}



SectionEnd

When I'm going to compile the nsis file, it returns this error:

code:
File: "Z:\XY\Doc\List\*$2*" -> no files found.

Usage: File [/nonfatal] [/a] ([/r] [/x filespec [...]] filespec [...] |

/oname=outfile one_file_only)

Error in script "C:\Users\Francesco\Desktop\example.nsi" on line 19 aborting creation process

I can't understand why... if I try to change the code File "${PATH_OK}" with a messagebox the path results ok. Where am I doing wrong? Many thanks to all!

[Anders]

You cannot mix and match compile-time and run-time instructions like that.

[franklin91]

Originally Posted by Anders

You cannot mix and match compile-time and run-time instructions like that.

Thanks for the reply Anders, do you know a method to solve my problem?
Many thanks!

[Anders]

The File instruction only knows the basic DOS wildcards, if you need something more advanced then you need to build a file list by executing something with !system and a batch file or something like that.