A script for copying smilar files to a new location

Hi,
i newbies to scripting. My challenge is that I want a script to only copy files with names "similar" and not "exactly the same" as the filenames in the text file.
For example some files have 10 letters file name like "ABC01FGH01.tif". I have to copy file where starting letter "ABC" and middle letter "FGH" of file name are fixed, but other letters are changed.
The script sees a file name like "ABC**FGH**.tif", it should search the source location and copy the files having filenames with at least this characters e.g. "ABC02FGH02.tif", "ABC03FGH04.tif" should be copied since it has
contains "ABC**FGH**.tif".
Please help.

Learn how to use wildcards in file names. '*' is for any number of characters and'?' is for one character.
COPY ABC??DE???.?x? c:\target
Start by using DIR
DIR ABC??DEF???JK.?x?
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After much googling, I was fortunate enough to find your beautiful script!
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ec
[code]
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' and copy those images from SourceFolder\SubFolders to TargetFolder
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Message was edited by: Jeffrey Dean

I think you're misinterpreting the error message.
It's not complaining about your 'Choose File Name', per se.
There are two problems with your script.
First, you:
          set myFile to the selection
As far as the Finder is concerned, 'selection' is a list. It's always a list, even if only one item is selected - heck, it's still a list if no files are selected... just an empty list.
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