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From: tensi@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Thomas Tensi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: ARP 1.3 question
Message-ID: <953@infovax.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de>
Date: 30 May 89 10:06:34 GMT
References: <89145.104504UH2@PSUVM>
Reply-To: tensi@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Thomas Tensi)
Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, TU Muenchen, W. Germany
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In article <89145.104504UH2@PSUVM> UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes:
>It's wonderful.  Thanks ARP guys.
>
I agree.

Nevertheless I was not satisfied with the behaviour of the meta characters.
To get rid of my EMACS backup files I typed (as usual under ARP 1.2)

        delete *~

and  all files in the current directory got deleted. Very bad indeed.
     ---

Of course, I knew that "~" is a meta character but I thought it would lose its
special meaning at the end of a regular expression as it's a prefix char...

(The fix is of course to quote the tilde...)

Is this the last word on meta character behaviour?

Thomas Tensi, Institut fuer Informatik, Technische Univ. Muenchen,
Arcisstr. 21, 8000 Muenchen 2, West Germany
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