On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:55 AM, The Geeko <[email protected]> wrote:
> No, I don't want to re-define language elements for this issue.  In fact, I
> could just avoid using nl altogether and rely on namelist instead.  It has the
> expected (and, correct, so it feels) behavior.

Yes, it really sounds like you wanted namelist (low level tool) rather
than names (user friendly tool).

>>    'wd' names_z_''
> I will be deprived of these because the behavior of nl is unpredictable...
> although, to be fair, the last example works with namelist as well.

But with differing results:

  'wd' namelist_z_ 0 1 2 3

gives you all names in z which begin with a 'd' or with a 'w'.

Thus 'wcsize' will appear for 'wd' namelist_z_ 0 1 2 3 but it would
not appear for 'wd' nl_z_ ''

-- 
Raul
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