Paladin of the Pegasos
Posts: 1516 from 2012/11/10
From: Manchester, UK/GB
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jPV - as usual, you've been very helpful in explaining this asterisk wildcard's likely place of origin (DOpus), and use in MorphOS.

In reality I still don't think that it was ever implemented directly in Workbench, even though that was considered to be where it originated from what
Kronos suggested, though Harry (
Piru) stated it seems to have been part of MorphOS from a very early stage of development, probably because it had been found to be so useful. Though I think that it's far more logical, and likely, that it's original use in earlier versions of DOpus was where it was first implemented in Workbench replacement mode such as DOpus Magellan, and considered worthy of adding its feature into MorphOS as it got developed in those early days . . . and subsequently got lost in time for many as it seems it never got documented as such in MorphOS, at least that's how it seems to have ended up, until now, to me.
It may also be handy to have the relevant usage information added to the
'Pattern Matching' section of the MorphOS Library so this thread's relevance in this regard does not get buried, and forgotten again, amongst all the other topics that get discussed here in this forum. This has been an interesting side-topic from the original thread, and I am grateful to you all that contributed in this thread for allowing this information to get aired for others to benefit from too.

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