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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: GNAT.Regexp: Am I missing something?
Date: 23 Apr 2001 06:33:36 +0100
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Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk> writes:

> > So, I anticipated that by doing:
> > 
> >    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.