[ZEP] A configuration option to have trailing ? equal exactly one character.... by Oliver Pretzel

[ZEP] A configuration option to have trailing ? equal exactly one character. [Release]

By: Oliver Pretzel
Date: Mar 09,2011 at 01:52
In Response to: Why? Because it gives more flexibility (Chester Kemp)

> Antti - Thanks for your suggestion.
>
> > For finding files with a penultimate s in the name part try
> > using: *s?*.*,-*s??*.*
>
> In a test directory, I have 26 files that have a penultimate "s".
>
> I tried your simple suggestion, but alas it didn't work - it only found
> 16 files, and missed 10. Kim's suggestion (elsewhere) of
> *s◄0-z►.* correctly found all 26.
>

Chester, you are right. Antti's suggestion is an ingenious attempt to get round the fact that trailing ?s do not give an exact count of the number of letters. But the problem with it is that the filespec looks for the *first* match in the name. So the first part of Antti's filespec includes all files with an s before the last letter, and the second part excludes all files with an s before the last two letters, even if the last but one letter is an s.

Kim's suggested work-around is fine for ASCII file names, but what happens if a file name ends with s and then a high unicode character?

It would be very nice to have a CO option to have trailing ? count exact numbers.

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- [Bug] File description with ? wildcard at end (1,284) - Chester Kemp - Mar 08,2011 at 01:10
  - As designed (1,463) - Kim Henkel - Mar 08,2011 at 01:15
    - As designed (1,458) - Chester Kemp - Mar 08,2011 at 02:00
      - As designed (1,415) - Ian Binnie - Mar 08,2011 at 04:11
        However . . . (1,306) - Chester Kemp - Mar 08,2011 at 05:42
        However . . . (1,261) - Kim Henkel - Mar 08,2011 at 06:23
        BUT . . . (1,312) - Chester Kemp - Mar 08,2011 at 06:42
        However . . . (1,269) - Ian Binnie - Mar 08,2011 at 07:12
        Regex for the file selection mask (1,352) - Robert Baguley - Mar 08,2011 at 17:56
        However . . . (1,271) - Kim Henkel - Mar 08,2011 at 18:17
        another new thing learnt! (1,226) - Chester Kemp - Mar 08,2011 at 20:39
        another new thing learnt! (1,240) - Ben Kent - Mar 08,2011 at 21:46
        UK invisible or Help incorrect (1,258) - Chester Kemp - Mar 09,2011 at 01:16
        Why? Because it gives more flexibility (1,272) - Antti - Mar 08,2011 at 20:11
        Why? Because it gives more flexibility (1,213) - Juergen Hestermann - Mar 08,2011 at 20:27
        Why? Because it gives more flexibility (1,221) - Chester Kemp - Mar 08,2011 at 21:09
        [ZEP] A configuration option to have trailing ? equal exactly one character. (1,227) - Oliver Pretzel - Mar 09,2011 at 01:52
        [ZEP] A configuration option to have trailing ? equal exactly one character. (1,269) - Chester Kemp - Mar 09,2011 at 05:39
        Fine, someone please add it to the Wiki wishlist (nomsg) (1,224) - Kim Henkel - Mar 09,2011 at 07:32
        Done (nomsg) (1,182) - Oliver Pretzel - Mar 12,2011 at 17:55