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>>>>> "RM" == Russ McManus <mcmanr@eq.gs.com> writes: RM> I agree about the globbing vs regexp distinction. Bud I didn't know RM> how to do globbing, so I punted. Actually, I once tried to write a RM> program that transformed a glob specifications into posix regular RM> expressions, but halfway through my brain nearly exploded, so I RM> stopped. RM> RM> Perl actually calls 'csh' sometimes to do globbing, I seem to RM> remember. A lot of this has already been thought out and implemented in scsh [1]. There is a file glob.scm which looks after globbing, for example. All in all it has a very elegant interface to most of the things Guile is addressing; I'm looking forward to guile-scsh. [1] http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/scsh/scsh.html -- Eric Marsden emarsden @ mail.dotcom.fr It's elephants all the way down