OpenEuphoria

2. Re: SSL Question

• Posted by "Kat" <gertie at visionsix.com> Jul 11, 2005
• 571 views

On 11 Jul 2005, at 9:23, Ken Orr wrote:

> 
> 
> posted by: Ken Orr <orr_kenneth at yahoo.ca>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The fuction file_type in the SSL.E has the following line:
> 
> }}}
<eucode>
>   if find('*', filename) or find('*', filename) then return 0 end if
> </eucode>
{{{

> 
> What is the purpose of the second find?  Isn't it redounded?

Or redundant?

Kat

4. Re: SSL Question

• Posted by "Kat" <gertie at visionsix.com> Jul 11, 2005
• 571 views
• Last edited Jul 12, 2005

On 11 Jul 2005, at 12:05, Ken Orr wrote:

<snip>

> > > }}}
<eucode>
> > >   if find('*', filename) or find('*', filename) then return 0 end if
> > <font color="#330033">> </eucode>
{{{
</font>
> > > 
> > > What is the purpose of the second find?  Isn't it redounded?
> > 
> > Or redundant?
> 
> Opps!  :-$ Sorry, I'll try to pay more attention to my spelling in the future.

It caught my eye because i want my "bot" to understand 
written english. Much like the sportscasters on tv here now 
say "seed" for "seat" in tennis rankings because they can't 
pronounce (or hear?) the correct pronunciation, and they don't
 bother with the etymology of the word, nor it's denotations,,,
 and how i see people here unable to use a lookup directory 
of any kind in a library because when they "sound out" a word 
they come up with a spelling impossible to locate,,, well, i 
wonder about these things. So in this case, you *can* spell 
all the keywords of Euphoria properly, and i assume pronounce 
them properly, but do you pronounce "redundant" as "redounded"? You can 
feel free to spell or say it how you like, i am only trying to backtrack how i 
can tell a "bot" that Soundex and Metaphone will not arrive at the correct 
pronunciation with this case. The Eu code i have would not have located 
"redundant", and i'd like for it to. If i widen the brute force search that much
though, i'd get a flood of highly improbable matches.

> Bad spelling aside, I still wonder why the second find is needed. 

No clue why it was coded that way. Like you say, it's not needed.

Kat

6. Re: SSL Question

• Posted by akusaya at gmx.net Jul 12, 2005
• 610 views

Sorry, that should have been

if find('*', filename) or find('?', filename) then return 0 end if

It checks for wildcards on the filename, since
file_type("c:\ab?c") would not make sense if there is a directory
called c:\ab1c and a file called c:\ab2c.

I didn't realize it after using it for about 2 years.
Thank you very much!

K> posted by: Ken Orr <orr_kenneth at yahoo.ca>

K> Hi,

K> The fuction file_type in the SSL.E has the following line:

K> }}}
<eucode>
K>   if find('*', filename) or find('*', filename) then return 0 end if
K> </eucode>
{{{


K> What is the purpose of the second find?  Isn't it redounded?

K> Ken