Re: Ignore every file except XX*

Branko Čibej wrote on Sat, 13 Jun 2020 09:51 +00:00:
> On 13.06.2020 11:15, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> > Daniel Sahlberg wrote on Fri, 12 Jun 2020 21:14 +0200:
> >>> Care to move this over to dev@ with a patch?
> >>>
> >> Will do, it might take a few days.
> >>
> >> Thanks to the other users for their suggestions but I don't think they'll
> >> be general enough for my use case.
> > Care to explain why patterns with negated character classes wouldn't work?
>
> There's a difference between saying, "ignore everything except '*.doc'"
> and "ignore '*.[^d][^o][^c]'".

Did you read my previous message in this thread? If you have, then
you've just committed a strawman, and that's unlike you.

(And for the record, the complement of «*.doc» is «*[^c]|*[^o]c|*[^d]oc|*[^.]doc|».)

> You can't get the same result with negated character classes as with
> pattrerns.

I'm aware of that, and have said so in so many words, but the problem
statement was "Ignore everything except XX* and YY*", and that _can_ be
achieved with negated patterns.

At this point I'd rather wait for Daniel to answer my question and
clarify his problem statement.
Received on 2020-06-13 12:10:13 CEST