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From: Marius Amado Alves <alves@systran.lu>
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Subject: Re: GNAT.Regexp: Am I missing something?
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 21:42:12 +0000 (GMT)
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> > >    File_Regexp := Compile("*.log", Glob => True);
> > > 
> > > I would end up with a regular expression that would match filenames
> > > ending in ".log".  However, that's not what's happening, none of my
> > > ".log" files get matched with that expression.
> > 
> > I would guess that the problem is that the function actually expects
> > "true" regular expressions. I.e. "^.*[.]log$" and not "*.log".
> 
> No, the clue's in the "Glob => True"; given that, the function's
> expecting glob-stype regular expressions, as OP expected.

Not clear.

The familiar types are exactly two:

  1. regular expression (perhaps of an "extended" strand like PERL's)

  2. Unix filename matching expression (with characters '*' and '?')

Please match Glob, "glob-stype", "OP" and any other strange names to the
familiar domain.

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