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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards
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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:26:10 +0100
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On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:22:07 -0500, Robert A Duff wrote:

> "Hyman Rosen" <hyman.rosen@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> On Feb 22, 8:15 pm, Robert A Duff <bobd...@shell01.TheWorld.com>
>> wrote:

>>> And I can't create a command that works like this:
>>>     search *.ada "some string"
>>
>> Huh? Why in the world not? The program knows how many arguments it
>> has, and it can get to the last one as easily as the first!
> 
> Yeah, I guess you're right about that.  Sorry.

Nope, you were right in principle. What about:

   search *.adb and *.ads but b~*.adb "some string" 

(I hate those b~*.adb files GNAT keeps on creating... (:-))

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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