HI Chris, That sounds reasonable. A match pattern like "R_*" looks like a globbing pattern, and I'd expect globbing patterns to act like that in general. It's how most bash works, for a start, as well as things like find(1).
I imagine that most footprints with a pattern like "R_*" intended it to be match-at-front anyway. Cheers, John On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 11:57 PM, Chris Pavlina <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Currently, the footprint filter strings in a component match a footprint > if they occur *anywhere* in the footprint's name. This leads to some > possibly unintentional matches - for example, "R" has a filter "R_*", > which matches literally every footprint with R_ somewhere in its name. > This is quite a lot of footprints that are NOT resistors. > > What if I changed this to require matching at the beginning of the > string? A filter meant to match anywhere in the string could be written > "*R_*" instead. This should significantly reduce the number of false > positive matches. > > -- > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
