Re: Bug#912745: ITP: libregexp-wildcards-perl -- converts wildcard expressions to Perl regular expressions

2018-11-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat, Nov 03, 2018 at 04:25:15PM +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote: s/joker/wildcard/ ? Not sure here. Seems in English "joker" is unusual to describe a wildcard, unlike other languages. If some native English speaker could comment? In English, in the context of a deck of cards, Joker and

Re: Bug#912745: ITP: libregexp-wildcards-perl -- converts wildcard expressions to Perl regular expressions

2018-11-03 Thread Christoph Biedl
Jakub Wilk wrote... > * Christoph Biedl , 2018-11-03, 12:41: Thanks for proof-reading. Both issues you've reported are upstream, of course I'll bring them there. > > It handles the * and ? jokers, > > s/joker/wildcard/ ? Not sure here. Seems in English "joker" is unusual to describe a

Re: Bug#912745: ITP: libregexp-wildcards-perl -- converts wildcard expressions to Perl regular expressions

2018-11-03 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Christoph Biedl , 2018-11-03, 12:41: It handles the * and ? jokers, s/joker/wildcard/ ? Backspace (\) is used as an escape character. I like the idea of backspace as escape character, but you probably meant "backslash" here. :-) -- Jakub Wilk

Bug#912745: ITP: libregexp-wildcards-perl -- converts wildcard expressions to Perl regular expressions

2018-11-03 Thread Christoph Biedl
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christoph Biedl * Package name: libregexp-wildcards-perl Version : 1.05 Upstream Author : Vincent Pit * URL : https://metacpan.org/pod/Regexp::Wildcards * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl