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Matt_Breedlove_
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Aug 08, 2011

assistance with literal question mark in switch

Hi All, In this switch, it allows through a few URI prefixes with a wildcard, but then there is a URI that is like this /?g or like this /?w any single character following the literal ...
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hooleylist
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Aug 30, 2011
Michael, you were right. You need two backslashes to escape the question mark: 


%  switch -glob {/yz}  {
   "/ab*" -
   /cd* -
   "/\\??" { puts matched }
   default { puts "no match" }
}
no match
%
% switch -glob {/?z}  {
   "/ab*" -
   /cd* -
   "/\\??" { puts matched }
   default { puts "no match" }
}
matched

Aaron