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Marc Paré marc at marcpare.com
Fri Oct 29 22:41:57 EDT 2004


Maf. King a écrit :

>On Friday 29 Oct 2004 05:38, Marc Paré wrote:
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>>I wonder why the use of the * is not used as the wildcard?
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>>Cheers
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>>Marc
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>HI Marc,
>
>It is because (I assume) gnucash uses a regex library to do the pattern 
>searches, and regexes are far more powerful (ie complicated) than shell * 
>expansion.
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>As a very quick pointer, 
>
>. matches any one character
>? matches the preceeding character zero or more times
>* matches the preceeding element zero or more times.
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>thus you have to specify what the * (or ?) will look for - in this case for 
>showing all the vendor list in gc, you could just as happily use a regex like 
>a? or Z*  which will match zero or more instances of "a" (or "Z") in the 
>vendor names. 
>
>The . is just a quick way to match with any non-empty string.
>
>Maf.
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Thanks for the note.  I will play around with this as I am not that 
familiar with regexes.

Cheers

Marc


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