This routine allows an application to verify the existence of, and return components of, a file specification. Wildcard operations are permitted. The routine uses the $PARSE and $SEARCH system services to seek the file specification. If no wildcards are included in the file specification string and the result-string returns a zero (0) length string, no file was found. If wildcard characters were present in the file specification and the result-string returns a zero (0) length string, there are no more files that match the wildcards. To find all the files that match a wildcard specification, repeatedly call this routine, passing the same arguments, until the routine returns a zero-length result string. The TPU$FILE_SEARCH routine is called by DECTPU when the TPU built-in procedure FILE_SEARCH is executed from TPU code. The return value of the built-in procedure is the string returned in the result-string argument.