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• Small suggestion (Score:1)

  by sri (5109) on 2006.11.30 0:22 (#51973) Homepage Journal

  Me likes, but you might want to extend your globs a bit.
  Range and hash support could make it look even better.
  
  

  before qr'/(\d+)' => run { set id => $1; };

  
  could become
  

  # hash, equivalent to /(\d+)
before '/#' => run { set id => $1 }

# range, for more specific matching (bit more complicated to implement but worth it imo)
before '/[0-255]' => run { set id => $1 }

# alternatives, would make sense too :)
before '/{1|133|255}' => run { set id => $1 }

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  • Re: (Score:2)

    by jesse (2531)

    It's an interesting thought. Though once we get to ranges, it's almost easier to just use full regexps. (And everywhere we use globs, we can just use a full regexp and qr'' instead. Globs are really nice for the simple case. I'm not quite sure where to draw the line. But "#" feels really nice. The suggestion is much appreciated.
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by audreyt (6654)

    We already support the standard glob syntax:

    before '{1,133,255}'

    As well as character classes:

    before '[a-z]'

    So I'm afraid that numeric range needs some other syntax. The '#' shorthand is very nice, though. :-)
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by sri (5109)

      Ah, nice one, been some time since i last looked at Jifty::Dispatcher. :)
      • Re: (Score:1)

        by audreyt (6654)

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        r25678 (orig r2238):  audreyt | 2006-12-01 12:43:40 +0800
        
        * Jifty::Dispatcher - NUMBER SIGN (#) now captures one or more digit
          characters in the extended shellglob condition syntax.
          Suggested by: Sebastian Riedel
        ----------------------------------------------------------------------