On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Mr. Gecko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But it does not seem to know * as a random indicator like PHP and > Terminal does. I can't seem to think of a way to do this so, if any > one can help me figure this out I would be very grateful.
It's not "random", it's called a "glob" (or more formally "pattern matching"). Your shell does that for you; when you do `ls foo*`, the shell checks to see if there are any entries that match that pattern in the current directory, and if so replaces the pattern with them before executing the command; the result is the same as if you had typed `ls foo1 foo2 foo3`. If no file exists matching that pattern, the shell passes the pattern through unscathed, at which point ls will complain it can't find a file named `foo*`. The point I'm trying to make is that PHP's auto-globbing is strange. --Kyle Sluder _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
