--- "Dave Powell, MMfab" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> A whole 10 seconds of testing seems to indicate that @s@ pmatches
> 'fread silly, while @s & s@ don't.  In other words, it matches much 
> the same way listf wildcards do.  I have no particular position on 
> whether that is 'broke' for what people would like to use it for 
> (never used it myself).

guess i was a victim of rtfm :-) (all 6 lines of it :-)

i received a private email with the following:

:setvar x "fread silly"
:calc pmatch("s@",x)
FALSE
:calc pmatch("@s@",x)
TRUE
:calc pmatch("??????s@",x)
TRUE
:calc pmatch("?????s@",x)
FALSE

so....i'd say pmatch isn't broke, it's just not well explained. 
thanks!      - d


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