Robert wrote, re my wildcard difficulties:
Get what solved, Harry? You try a command; if it doesn't work, you
try a different command, until you find one that does work. That's
the way it is in programming.
That's what I do, but usually the workaround is more cumbersome than it
would be if I understood what the problem is.
Error 567 is particularly delphic and arbitrary.
Yeah, I think that's part of the problem.
In the case of ci /W,/W;/ (which fails), given that the W wildcard
means "any string from 0 to 80 chars", how is that different from a
simple CI /,/;/? I don't see any difference.
Yeah, I gave a bad example. I can't recall the real cases where I got error
567, so I just plunged it with the first thing that gave the error (even
though it doesn't make sense).
In my experience, you can almost always recast an Error 567 CHange
command so as to avoid the error. Perhaps a real-world problem of
this kind -- if you have one handy -- could serve as a further
example.
Next time it comes up, I'll send it in.
Thanks, Robert.
Harry Binswanger
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