Re: expand2list

On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 17:35, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> Tim Hemel wrote:
> 
> > Is the following behaviour intended?
> > 
> > expand2list("patches-*") results in ['patches-*'] when there is no
> > wildcard match. I would expect to see an empty list instead.
> 
> Yes, when there is no match the original item is used.  Helps when a
> file name actually contains a * or ?.
> 
> Is this a problem?

It forces me to use constructs like these:

	@l = expand2list(_no.PATCHES)
	@if l[0] == _no.PATCHES: l = []
	@for p in l:
		:sys cd $WRKDIR/$WRKSRC && patch -p1 <  `var_abspath(p)`

If a filename would contain a wildcard and I'd have to expand it, i
think the * or ? should be escaped.

Tim



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