email edit

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 03:49:47PM -0500, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Sat, 10 Nov 2007 13:40:38 -0500):
> >* matches nothing?  That's not what my 5.0 help says; it says "matches
> >any single character".
> 
> Last I checked, space is a character.

Yes, but filePro is, arguably, the only language that treats fields as
having declared lengths which are always space padded on the right, as
opposed merely to having a maximum length.  As I note here:

> >Oh yeah: I always forget: filePro treats all fields as space padded on
> >the right to the full length of the field.  I need { not-a-space } at
> >the end there.
> 
> By placing "{*}" (accept all characters) at the end of the edit, you
> explicitly told filePro to accept all of the trailing spaces.

Which programmer intuition tells me not to expect to be there, yes.

Cheers,
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