Re: Wildcard ci problem

[Wolfgang Bechstein bechstein@xxxxxxxx]

Harry Binswanger  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.

Okay, now for the experts...

Wolfgang Bechstein
bechstein@xxxxxxxx