Re: Wildcard ci problem

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Wolfie wrote:

> > ci |http://WWWWW[CR]|≪lbhttp://WWWWW[CR]≫|
> >
> > But even three W's generates the error that "wildcards have to be in the
> > same order."
>
> I'll defer to the more knowledgeable people when they speak up, but it
> seems to me that, if the W wildcard is defined as a string of any length,
> putting more than one next to each other would present the software with
> a problem that even programming excellence a la XyWrite or NB cannot
> overcome. How do you expect the software to know where one "W" string
> ends and the other begins? If the above definition is correct, using "WW"
> or "WWW" or whatever is essentially meaningless since it is the same as
> "W". However, if the W wildcard is defined as a string of max. xx
> characters in length, and you are stringing the W's up in order to
> increase the length of the wildcard string, you may simply be trying to
> exceed a built-in limit that cannot be exceeded by definition.


Well, I intend it to mean: search through up to 400 characters at a time,
looking for a carriage-return-line-feed. (Each W spanning 80, 5x80=400). If
you find one, say after 322 non-qualifying characters, take THOSE 322
characters, add a carriage-return-line-feed, and surround them by ≪lb ≫.


I don't see any ambiguity or circularity in that. On internal limits, note
that there's no problem SEarching for 5 W's followed by a CR/LF.


Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx