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: "Marc K. Myers" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 09:49:26 -0400
- Organization: [very little]
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Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 00:54:26 -0400
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From: "Marc K. Myers" <email@hidden>
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Reply-To: email@hidden
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Organization: [very little]
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To: Godot <email@hidden>
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CC: email@hidden
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Subject: Re: GREP in Akua's "the entries in"
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Godot 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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> The quick answer: "***"
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> The long answer: Although that would seem somewhat logical, the '*' command
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> already takes the next character as a "literal", making the "/" superfluous.
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> You are saying any characters until an asterisk and then any characters
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> until end-of-line.
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> Thus things like "*[abc]*" don't work. It is a low-power-high-speed-68K
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> assembly match from 1989 :)
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> Cheers,
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> Greg
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Using "***" picks up entries with names containing an asterisk unless
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the asterisk happens to be in the leading position. I can pick those us
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with "/**", but I thought that I should have gotten everything with the
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first search string, as the leading asterisk in the search string
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represents "zero or more characters" in front of the specific search characters.
How embarrassing! Gregory Lemperle-Kerr, creator of Akua Sweets, tested
this himself and said it worked. I went back and looked at my script
and realized that the items that didn't get picked up were excluded
because they were folders and I had restricted my search to files in
"the entries in" command. Sorry for the confusion.
Marc K. Myers <email@hidden>
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