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Suffixes for data types Appendix
with (contd.)
-wild(n) Parts of names may be replaced by the following wildcards.
n denotes the maximum input length when using wildcards.
Due to the introduction of the data types posix-filename and posix-
pathname, SDF now accepts wildcards from the UNIX world (referred to
below as POSIX wildcards) in addition to the usual BS2000 wildcards.
However, as not all commands support POSIX wildcards, their use for data
types other than posix-filename and posix-pathname can lead to semantic
errors.
Only POSIX wildcards or only BS2000 wildcards should be used within a
search pattern. Only POSIX wildcards are allowed for the data types posix-
filename and posix-pathname. If a pattern can be matched more than once
in a string, the first match is used.
BS2000
wildcards
Meaning
* Replaces an arbitrary (even empty) character string. If the
string concerned starts with *, then the * must be entered twice
in succession if it is followed by other characters and if the
character string entered does not contain at least one other
wildcard.
Termina-
ting period
Partially-qualified entry of a name.
Corresponds implicitly to the string “.*”, i.e. at least one other
character follows the period.
/ Replaces any single character.
<s
x
:s
y
> Replaces a string that meets the following conditions:
– It is at least as long as the shortest string (s
x
or s
y
)
– It is not longer than the longest string (s
x
or s
y
)
– It les between s
x
and s
y
in the alphabetic collating
sequence; numbers are sorted after letters (A...Z 0...9)
–s
x
can also be an empty string (which is in the first position
in the alphabetic collating sequence)
–s
y
can also be an empty string, which in this position stands
for the string with the highest possible code (contains only
the characters X'FF')
<s
1
,…> Replaces all strings that match any of the character combina-
tions specified by s. s may also be an empty string. Any such
string may also be a range specification “s
x
:s
y
” (see above).
Suffix Meaning
Table 11: Data type suffixes (part 2 of 7)