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From: honp9@jetson.uh.edu (Jason L. Tibbitts III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Pipes
Message-ID: <7594.273e8c18@jetson.uh.edu>
Date: 12 Nov 90 17:48:40 GMT
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In article <1990Nov8.173836.19620@agora.uucp>, billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour) writes:

> 	But if we now reserve | for a pipe, what will I use for an 'OR'? That's
> what | is used for now in the AmigaDOS pattern matching... I would be all for
> using it in piping, if it hadn't been used before.

It is required that the '|' used as logical-or be enclosed with its arguments
in parenthesis.  In some cases, the usual AmigaDos commands will accept the OR
symbol without parenthesis, but this is not consistent with the spec.

Do the pattern-matching functions in 2.0 require the parenthesis grouping?

> 	BTW, now that we have a 'NOT' (~) in the pattern matching algorythm,
> any chance for [a-m,o-z] type patterns?

Not to be cliche or anything, but 'it's in there'.

>      -Bill Seymour                                            billsey@agora
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