Done Enhance @EXPAND

[Steve Fabian]

Please add support for exclusion ranges to @EXPAND. I just came across a
case when I had to manually edit the command line to remove all 16 filenames
matching P* for a Microsoft Word command line.
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Steve

 

[rconn]

Steve Fábián wrote:

> Please add support for exclusion ranges to @EXPAND. I just came across a
> case when I had to manually edit the command line to remove all 16 filenames
> matching P* for a Microsoft Word command line.

@EXPAND already supports ranges.

Rex Conn
JP Software

 

[Steve Fabian]

rconn wrote:
| Steve Fábián wrote:
|
|
| ---Quote---
|| Please add support for exclusion ranges to @EXPAND. I just came
|| across a case when I had to manually edit the command line to remove
|| all 16 filenames matching P* for a Microsoft Word command line.
| ---End Quote---
| @EXPAND already supports ranges.

... but the range support excludes exclusion ranges!

>From Topic "f_expand.htm" last edited 9/28/2006. ©2009 JP Software, Inc.:

Exclusion ranges are not supported.

My usage yesterday showed the above statement to be correct.
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Steve

 

[rconn]

Steve Fábián wrote:

> rconn wrote:
> | Steve Fábián wrote:
> |
> |
> | ---Quote---
> || Please add support for exclusion ranges to @EXPAND. I just came
> || across a case when I had to manually edit the command line to remove
> || all 16 filenames matching P* for a Microsoft Word command line.
> | ---End Quote---
> | @EXPAND already supports ranges.
>
> ... but the range support excludes exclusion ranges!
>
> ---Quote---
>>From Topic "f_expand.htm" last edited 9/28/2006. ©2009 JP Software, Inc.:
> ---End Quote---
> Exclusion ranges are not supported.
>
> My usage yesterday showed the above statement to be correct.

%@expand[[!p]*]

Rex Conn
JP Software

 

[Steve Fabian]

rconn wrote:

| %@expand[[!p]*]

This works in my case, because exclusion can be reduced to a character
position, but exclusion ranges can be much more complex, e.g.
dir /[!descript.ion *.ini x.*] /a:-d /b
lists fewer files than what would be its equivalent
echo @expand[/[!descript.ion *.ini x.*] *,-d]

The same enhancement for @FILES (which has identical syntax) would also be
desirable.
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Steve