Mike Taylor wrote:
> Ere Maijala writes:
>  > Robert Sanderson wrote:
>  > > On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress wrote:
>  > > 
>  > >>> 2.  Is it sufficiently useful to also allow negative numbers in the
>  > >>>     start position?  eg:  -10:3 -- 3 characters starting at the 10th
>  > >>>     from last.
>  > >> Please, no. (That takes us several steps backwards -- if you allow negative
>  > >> numbers you would also have to allow zero. I was liking the direction of
>  > >> this discussion until this.)
>  > > 
>  > > Here's my use case:
>  > > 
>  > >   foo.fileName =/substring=-5 .html
>  > > 
>  > > Find all filenames that end in '.html', which can't otherwise be
>  > > accomplished unless you can start a number of characters back from the
>  > > end.
>  > 
>  > Shoot me for asking but what's wrong with plain old left truncation?
>  > 
>  > foo.fileName =/ *.html
> 
> Actually, I think that shooting myself for not having thoughts of that
> would be more appropriate.  Would you like me to shoot Rob, too?
> 
> :-)

No need to, he seems to be perfectly capable of doing that himself ;)

--Ere

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