wildcard

Common Lisp Wildcard for eql

Is there a wildcard in Common Lisp that is eql to any atom? That is, is there any wildcard such that (eql wildcard any-atom) returns true? ...

Apache wildcard at domain level

Hi, I have few sites, and they all have identical setup on a single server. Now, instead of the separate configuration file for each of them in sites-enabled directory, I want to have a common file. Idea is this: www.abc.com should have /var/www/abc as DocumentRoot, www.xyz.com should have /var/www/xyz as DocumentRoot, etc. Al...

Call Ruby script on multiple input files with wildcard

Hi, I am relatively new to Ruby and need to write a script that will handle mulitple input files. It should be called like so: script.rb -i file* where the directory contains multiple files, like file1.xml, file2.xml and so on. Just a quick question: How will this wildcard be expanded? Do I need to program that in my script? I am usi...

Are "charlist" style wildcards part of the SQL-92 standard?

The SQL wildcards "%" and "_" are well documented and widely known. However as w3schools explains, there are also "charlist" style wildcards for matching a single character within or outside a given range, for example to find all the people called Carl but not those called Earl: select * from Person where FirstName like '[A-D]arl' ......

emacs regexp-replace seems to work unexpectedly

I am trying to remove some <span style="something not constant"> from a text and I tried M-x replace-regexp> "<span*>" -> "" but it does nothing. I made sure the cursor is at the beginning of the file. ...