"John Salerno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Paul McGuire wrote:
> > "Paul McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >> where '*' matches one or more characters, and '?' matches any single
> >
> > oops, I meant '*' matches zero or more characters.
>
> '?' also matches 0 characters
Maybe it does, and maybe it doesn't... :)
Here is my test with the glob module (in my directory, there is a file named
PUTTY.RND):
>>> glob.glob('PUTTY.RND')
['PUTTY.RND']
>>> glob.glob('PUTTY.RN?')
['PUTTY.RND']
>>> glob.glob('PUTTY.RN?D')
[]
>>> glob.glob('PUTTY.RN?')
['PUTTY.RND']
>>> glob.glob('PUTTY.RND?')
[]
>>> glob.glob('PUTT?.RND')
['PUTTY.RND']
>>> glob.glob('PUTTY?.RND')
[]
>>> glob.glob('PUTT?Y.RND')
[]
>>>
Looks like '?' does *not* match zero characters in glob. On the other hand,
in the Windows console window, it appears that '?' *does* match zero
characters.
Of course, you could write your regexp() routine to interpret '?' any way
you wanted.
-- Paul
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