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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Wildcards vs. Regular Expressions (Re: Pipes)
Message-ID: <5791@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 7 Jun 90 11:00:13 GMT
References: <2533@zipeecs.umich.edu> <136735@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1990Jun6.104643.15176@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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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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