Re: GREP in Akua's "the entries in"
Re: GREP in Akua's "the entries in"
- Subject: Re: GREP in Akua's "the entries in"
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 03:21:34 -0700
On 7/5/01 2:33 AM, "Marc K. Myers" <email@hidden> wrote:
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I'm trying to figure out how to format the search string in Akua Sweets'
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"the entries in" command to select all files with an asterisk in their
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names. From the dictionary/documentation, it looked like it should be
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"*/**", wildcard-real asterisk-wild card. That doesn't do it. Does
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anyone know what would? TIA.
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It doesn't use extra escape characters, just the ones specified in 'collect
lines' or 'collect items'.
"***" will do what you want: wildcard-real asterisk-wildcard, just as
you said.
Just don't put in a forward slash. AppleScript doesn't ever require a
forward slash as an escape character and only requires a back-slash escape
character before double quotes " and before itself \. What other grep
systems like RegEx may require don't bother Akua's more basic system at
all.
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Paul Berkowitz