On Sunday, April 21, 2002, at 04:06 PM, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:

> On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 14:30:10 +1000, Ken Williams 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
>> The only assumption I'm making (this is valid, right?) is
>> that if a regex matches a directory, it will also match each file
>> inside that directory.  I think this is true on every OS/filesystem I
>> know of.
>
> Wrong!
>
> /^dir$/ matches "dir", not "dir/foo".

Oh.  Heh.  Except for that.  Or lookaheads, or similar.

>
> But as I said, it's unlikely that people are using such.


Right, because they're not likely to want to exclude a directory 
but include files in that directory, unless they're very strange 
people.

  -Ken

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