ietf-nntp Multiple Wildmat parameters

Stan O. Barber sob at verio.net
Tue Jul 18 10:12:39 PDT 2000


Peter Mee writes:

In section 4 of the draft, the character set paragraph indicates:

            characters. Keywords and arguments MUST be each separated by
            one or more US-ASCII SPACE or US-ASCII TAB characters.

Multiple Wildmat arguements are currently separated by commas.  Is the comma 
or the above description an error?

Proposed additional text about multiple wildmat arguements:

          Where more than one wildmat arguement is given with a command the
          arguement that is left-most is given least precedence, the
          arguement that is right-most is given most precedence and those
          wildmat arguements between are given an increasing precedence
          from left to right.

Proposed additional sample (assuming space is the separator between 
arguements):

                 g) a* !ab* -- matches any string beginning with a but
                    does not have b as it's second character.  The string
                    "a" (without quotes) is a match.

Cheers,

Pete



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