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From: smp@myamiga.UUCP (Steve Palm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Pipes
Message-ID: <99.273647DB@myamiga.UUCP>
Date: 6 Nov 90 02:47:18 GMT
Organization: The Siberian Amiga --- Sault Ste. Marie, MI
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I would never have guessed that such a great amount of bandwith could be taken 
up with such a simple topic as pipes and wildcards...  Live and learn...
 
My suggestion is to leave the current wildcard regular expressions alone.
They are great.  Perhaps add * for those out there who can't stomach #?.
 
For the pipe, leave it as |.  After all, as someone pointed out, overloading
this regular expression character works splendidly well and doesn't reserve
yet another character.  Besides, I believe that it would be clear when you 
wanted it to be a pipe character and when it was part of an expression.



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