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Re: Three Suggestions
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Sun, 29 Nov 1998 22:55:41 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) writes:

Jeff Stembel <Dragonelf1@aol.com> wrote:
3.  Would it be possible to search with a wildcard?  Like 3xxx to find
all sets between 3000-3999?

or how about with a perl regular expression? :)

Is that a real :) or mostly a ;) ?

I agree that a PerlRE would be cool (and not really difficult to add), but
can you give some concrete examples of search queries which would benefit in
a major way from a feature like that?  I can see a bit of use in things like
coalescing Space Police I & II on-the-fly, but . . .

--Todd



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  Re: Three Suggestions
 
(...) Right, that's why the :) -- it seemed like an obviously good idea at first, but then I couldn't really think of many practical uses. (26 years ago, 29-Nov-98, to lugnet.admin.database)

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(...) or how about with a perl regular expression? :) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-98, to lugnet.admin.database)

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