Re: Wildcard ci problem

["Patricia M. Godfrey" PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx]

Pierre d'Or jcvanhaeften@xxxxxxxx wrote:

Running dos-xy3.53 on a win98/se ther is no problem is using the
specified ci

ci |http://WWWWW[CR]|≪lbhttp://WWWWW[CR]≫|

sorry couldn't be more helpfull
Carel


Something strange is going on here. I know we've discussed wildcard CI
before, so went looking in the archive. The first thing I found was
this, from Robert sometime in May 96:


Surely you're aware that wildcard CHanges were not natively available
in v3.5x. So not "everyone" could do them; in fact, no one could do
them. WILDCIA overcame that limitation


Carl, Robert, and a few others made some very helpful suggestions to me
back in late Jan. (19-21) of 2003. Unfortunately, the posts of 1/20/03
on my drive got truncated somehow (must have been an ASCII26 lurking in
the digest there), so I don't have the full dossier. Suggest XySearch on
Wildcard in that time frame to get the full story. But I think Wolfgang
is on the right track: in the part of the discussion I do have, Harry
said that

 ci /W,/W;/
produced an error message, and Robert pointed out that you cannot
search for "any string of any length" without *real* anchors on
either side≪;


one would need ci /,/;/ or CI /X,/X;/, since wild X is just one character.

Patricia M. Godfrey
priscamg@xxxxxxxx