As designed... by Chester Kemp

As designed [Release]

By: Chester Kemp
Date: Mar 08,2011 at 02:00
In Response to: As designed (Kim Henkel)

> "? Use leading or embedded question marks in a name spec to specify
> an exact number of any characters in that position of the filename.
> Use trailing question marks in either section of a name spec to
> specify an exact number or fewer, including zero characters"

Ah - so it is a charming idiosyncrasy :-)

I think that this is inconsistent with its function during a replace. For example if I have a series of files called:
FILE1, FILE2, FILE3 ... FILE9, FILE10, FILE11

I might tag the first nine and apply the following *<0>?.*

This is a specific single character and correctly makes the files:
FILE01, FILE02 etc

I cannot see the virtue of " ... including zero characters" elsewhere. In what practical situation would it be useful? (I assume that there must be a reason.)

Regards
Chester

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  - [Query] v2.2 Now available! (1,373) - Kim Henkel - Mar 04,2011 at 04:17
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- [Cosmetic] TFC8.EXE (1,314) - Laurent Duchastel - Mar 04,2011 at 06:08
  - TFC.EXE (1,398) - Ian Binnie - Mar 04,2011 at 06:16
    - TFC.EXE (2,032) - Kim Henkel - Mar 04,2011 at 06:28
- [Bug] File description with ? wildcard at end (1,291) - Chester Kemp - Mar 08,2011 at 01:10
  - As designed (1,472) - Kim Henkel - Mar 08,2011 at 01:15
    - As designed (1,465) - Chester Kemp - Mar 08,2011 at 02:00
      - As designed (1,421) - Ian Binnie - Mar 08,2011 at 04:11
        However . . . (1,312) - Chester Kemp - Mar 08,2011 at 05:42
        However . . . (1,265) - Kim Henkel - Mar 08,2011 at 06:23
        BUT . . . (1,320) - Chester Kemp - Mar 08,2011 at 06:42
        However . . . (1,275) - Ian Binnie - Mar 08,2011 at 07:12
        Regex for the file selection mask (1,359) - Robert Baguley - Mar 08,2011 at 17:56
        However . . . (1,275) - Kim Henkel - Mar 08,2011 at 18:17
        another new thing learnt! (1,231) - Chester Kemp - Mar 08,2011 at 20:39
        another new thing learnt! (1,246) - Ben Kent - Mar 08,2011 at 21:46
        UK invisible or Help incorrect (1,262) - Chester Kemp - Mar 09,2011 at 01:16
        Why? Because it gives more flexibility (1,277) - Antti - Mar 08,2011 at 20:11
        Why? Because it gives more flexibility (1,219) - Juergen Hestermann - Mar 08,2011 at 20:27
        Why? Because it gives more flexibility (1,226) - Chester Kemp - Mar 08,2011 at 21:09
        [ZEP] A configuration option to have trailing ? equal exactly one character. (1,231) - Oliver Pretzel - Mar 09,2011 at 01:52
        [ZEP] A configuration option to have trailing ? equal exactly one character. (1,276) - Chester Kemp - Mar 09,2011 at 05:39
        Fine, someone please add it to the Wiki wishlist (nomsg) (1,230) - Kim Henkel - Mar 09,2011 at 07:32
        Done (nomsg) (1,189) - Oliver Pretzel - Mar 12,2011 at 17:55