[Info-vax] Non-portable code

Paul Sture paul.nospam at sture.ch
Sat Jan 9 12:00:55 EST 2010


In article <Y3P1n.14479$U5.223731 at newsb.telia.net>,
 Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:

> Paul Sture wrote:
> > In article <bcs1n.14442$U5.222227 at newsb.telia.net>,
> >  Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> $ help lexical f$match_wild example
> >>
> >> Lexicals
> >>
> >>   F$MATCH_WILD
> >>
> >>    Example
> >>
> >>     $ write sys$output f$match_wild ("This is a candidate","*c%%d*")
> >>     TRUE
> >>     $
> >>
> >>     This command performs a wildcard match between the candidate
> >>     candidate and pattern *c%%d* and found that the strings match.
> > 
> > Not available on VAX-VMS V7.3.
> > 
> 
> OK. I do not remember the target environment and
> I couldn't care less what's in *VAX* /VMS or not... :-)
> But I'm sure you're right, of course.

I tested it before posting.

-- 
Paul Sture



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