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Article #3830Wildcards vs. Regular Expressions (Re: Pipes)
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 1990 11:00
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 1990 11:00
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In article <1990Jun6.104643.15176@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
> Looking at the Amiga implementation, like looking at the choice of "#?" for
> the wildcard
"#?" is not a wildcard. AmigaDOS does not implement a wildcard. It implements
regular expressions, which is a much more powerful tool than wildcards.
> "Why did the
> Amiga developers go to the time, trouble, and expense to design and
> implement something poorly, when an example of how to do it much better was
> conveniently at hand?"
They didn't. They implemented something more powerful.
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