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From: mrush@csuchico.edu (Matt "C P." Rush)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: tilde in filename
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Date: 8 Sep 90 19:36:38 GMT
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In article <14295@cbmvax.commodore.com> jjszucs@cbmvax.commodore.com (John J. Szucs) writes:
>
>The tilde (~) is a new wildcard character used as a logical NOT operator.
>It should be placed before the wildcard expression you wish to NOT.

	Yea!  FINALLY a NOT operator for AmigaDOS!

>For example:
>
>1.SYS:> list ~(#?.info)
>
>will list all files not matching the pattern "#?.info" (all files that do not
>end with .info).

	My question:  Does 2.0 feature some kind of NATIVE pattern matching
function that can be called by programs that wish to use Amiga wildcard
patterns?  Something like Manx's scdir() function would be really nice.  It
seems awfully wasteful to have to put pattern-matching code in EVERY program
that wants to use it (list, copy, delete, etc.).

	-- Matt

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