Get process ID by part of its process name

Question

I have a process which can change of name depending on the version of the application which runs that process.
For example:
myProcess64.exe
myProcess65.exe
Is there a way using Sigar to get the process Id by specifing something like `myProcess%` ?
Right now I'm using this:
ProcessFinder find = new ProcessFinder(this.sigar);
long[] pids = find.find("Exe.Name.ct=" + this.processName);

Answer 1

Sadly Spotlight's string matching algorithms are anything but intuitive. While Spotlight may be "smart" enough to know that a search for "Paris" is not intended to search for "comparison", it apparently assumes bit too much when it determines that a search for 'ft' does not intend a search for the string embedded in 'usft'. The sadly inescapable upshot of this is that if you want Spotlight filename searches to be effective, you either have to memorize its idiosyncratic rules and set up your searches accordingly, or start naming your files in a way that conforms to its search capabilities. Of course if you have a few hundred or thousand files that you named during the pre-Spotlight period 1984 - 2005, you may have to use another search utility, like the third party EasyFind, to continue filename-based searches with any efficiency.