[Closed] Wildcard help

I just recently started using wildcard characters in maxscript, and while as sometimes they work, other times they don’t, and I have no idea why.

For example, this works:

 getDirectories ((systemTools.getEnvVariable("USERPROFILE"))+"\Documents\3D-Coat*")
 

But this doesn’t:

 objfile = openFile ("file path goes here") mode:"r"
 tmp = ""
 myMeshName = ""
 while not eof objfile do (
 	if (tmp = readLine objfile) == "# object *" do
 		(myMeshName = tmp)
 	)
 

Why?

Could someone explain this seemingly very useful symbol to me?