Why doesn’t this wild card route work?

[Max Drown (Infor)]

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-- Max Drown (Infor)

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[Max Drown (Infor)]

Interesting, changing the route to ADT_A.* seemed to work.

-- Max Drown (Infor)

[Steve Carter]

ADT_A*

The asterick indicates zero or more occurences of the previous character.  It doesn’t indicate ‘anything’ after the ‘A’.  That’s why ADT_A.* will work.  It matches zero or more occurences of any characters following the ‘A’.

This may not be a good way to explain it, but it’s how it works.

I’m sure someone will correct me if I’m wrong.

Steve

[Tom Rioux]

Steve is correct.  The period is telling it to match “any character” and the asterisk is telling it to match zero or more instances of the “previous pattern”…which in this case is the wildcard period.

Thanks…

Tom Rioux

[Max Drown (Infor)]

I get it now. I misunderstood what Cloverleaf means by “wildcard”. Thanks for the feedback!

-- Max Drown (Infor)

[Jim Kosloskey]

Yeah – they don’t mean what everyone understands as wild card – they mean regexp.

email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 29+ years Cloverleaf, 59 years IT - old fart.

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