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From: cmcmanis@sun.uucp (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Pattern Matching & documentation
Message-ID: <10176@sun.uucp>
Date: Fri, 5-Dec-86 13:06:26 EST
Article-I.D.: sun.10176
Posted: Fri Dec  5 13:06:26 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 5-Dec-86 21:15:44 EST
References: <954@blia.BLI.COM> <1731@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <3135@ece-csc.UUCP>
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Summary: Lattice Library can pattern match


In article <3135@ece-csc.UUCP> Mark Lanzo writes :

*>I agree with the crowd wanting the filename expansion to be done automatically
*>by the system since it would contribute greatly to a uniform user interface
*>and makes writing application a good deal easier at the same time.
*>It seems silly to have to include gobs of filename expanding code in every
*>program I write which can accept a filename as an argument (which is
*>probably most programs).

The 3.1 version of the lattice compiler has a library routine to do filename
expansion/pattern matching in either AmigaDOS mode (#? etc) or MS-DOS mode
with *.* etc. This at least frees one from having to write gobs of code
but does leave it up to the application to expand it. 

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