On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 07:12:37PM +0100, Robert Scholte wrote: > These patterns were introduced with Ant.
Well, glob matching goes back at least as far as Unix v1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_%28programming%29 Ant improved on this by adding the double-asterisk that matches any depth of hierarchy levels (treating a level as an atom, not a string). They're clearly not REs: "*.something" viewed as an RE begins with a quantifier which has nothing to quantify. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu I don't do "doorbusters".
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