From kde-core-devel  Fri Jul 19 22:15:08 2002
From: Martin Konold <konold () kde ! org>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 22:15:08 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: [Controversial Patch for Bug 18180] kfind sloppy match for simple search strings
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On Friday 19 July 2002 11:40 pm, Klas Kalass wrote:

Hi,

> Why do you think that k?ind* is anythingnonmatching*? We are not talking
> about regular expressions but about shell - style wildcards. The meaning =
of
> "?" is "any one" character, not "one or none of the previous". So k?ind
> matches kfind wonderfully and kfind* matches kfind.cpp wonderfully.
> But this has nothing to do with my proposed patch because it is the curre=
nt
> behaviour of bash, kfind and many other tools using wildcards.

I stand corrected! Thanks!

Yours,
=2D-martin
=2D-=20
Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold
Stauffenbergstra=DFe 107, 72074 T=FCbingen, Germany
email: konold@kde.org