On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 04:27:21 -0800 (PST), Harrison Hill
<harrisonhill2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>"Well ??ounded = Well ?ounded"
>What is this phrase from the COD?
whoosh.
-- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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On Feb 10, 2:22 am, Duggy <Paul.Dug...@jcu.edu.au> wrote:
> On Feb 9, 10:31 pm, Pablo <no...@nowhere.net> wrote:
> > Harrison Hill escribió:
> > > "Well ??ounded = Well ?ounded"
> > > What is this phrase from the COD?
> > I don't think any English words start with a question mark.
> I don't think any English phrases include an equals sign.
Then you are as wrongheaded as Pablo who at least has the advantage
over you of sounding Spanish. A phrase is a:
"Mode of expression, diction, as in simple~, felicity of ~; an
idiomatic expression; small group of words..."
...and so on, according to my COD. But maybe you don't think any
Englsh phrase includes the caret? The clever people have already
worked out the answer to this and are sitting on their hands...so:
### Well grounded = Well founded ###
To English builders "groundworks" and "foundations" are the same
thing.
Harrison Hill wrote:
> On Feb 10, 2:22 am, Duggy <Paul.Dug...@jcu.edu.au> wrote:
>> On Feb 9, 10:31 pm, Pablo <no...@nowhere.net> wrote:
>>> Harrison Hill escribió:
>>>> "Well ??ounded = Well ?ounded"
>>>> What is this phrase from the COD?
>>> I don't think any English words start with a question mark.
>> I don't think any English phrases include an equals sign.
> Then you are as wrongheaded as Pablo who at least has the advantage
> over you of sounding Spanish. A phrase is a:
> "Mode of expression, diction, as in simple~, felicity of ~; an
> idiomatic expression; small group of words..."
> ...and so on, according to my COD. But maybe you don't think any
> Englsh phrase includes the caret? The clever people have already
> worked out the answer to this and are sitting on their hands...so:
> On Feb 10, 2:22 am, Duggy <Paul.Dug...@jcu.edu.au> wrote:
>> On Feb 9, 10:31 pm, Pablo <no...@nowhere.net> wrote:
>> > Harrison Hill escribió:
>> > > "Well ??ounded = Well ?ounded"
>> > > What is this phrase from the COD?
>> > I don't think any English words start with a question mark.
>> I don't think any English phrases include an equals sign.
> Then you are as wrongheaded as Pablo who at least has the advantage
> over you of sounding Spanish.
I'm British.
I was simply referring to the question marks. Thinking that maybe you'd posted using a strange codepage, I tried them all, but still only got question marks.
And anyway, it seems the missing letters are ascii so I have no idea what's going on.
> > On Feb 10, 2:22 am, Duggy <Paul.Dug...@jcu.edu.au> wrote:
> >> On Feb 9, 10:31 pm, Pablo <no...@nowhere.net> wrote:
> >> > Harrison Hill escribió:
> >> > > "Well ??ounded = Well ?ounded"
> >> > > What is this phrase from the COD?
> >> > I don't think any English words start with a question mark.
> >> I don't think any English phrases include an equals sign.
> > Then you are as wrongheaded as Pablo who at least has the advantage
> > over you of sounding Spanish.
> I'm British.
> I was simply referring to the question marks. Thinking that maybe you'd
> posted using a strange codepage, I tried them all, but still only got
> question marks.
> And anyway, it seems the missing letters are ascii so I have no idea what's
> going on.
The questionmark is a wildcard in computer programming and means any
single character. Others are:
"#" (hash) = any single digit.
"*" (asterix) = any amount of anything or nothing.
Sorry for causing confusion and muddling you up with Manuel!
Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2...@gmail.com> writes:
> The questionmark is a wildcard in computer programming and means any
> single character. Others are:
> "#" (hash) = any single digit.
Never seen anything use that; what uses that for single digit? (Not
perl regexp, emacs regexp, POSIX regexp, shell glob).
> "*" (asterix) = any amount of anything or nothing.
SQL seems to use "%", just to confuse the issue.
> Sorry for causing confusion and muddling you up with Manuel!
On Feb 10, 4:06 pm, David Dyer-Bennet <d...@dd-b.net> wrote:
> Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2...@gmail.com> writes:
> > The questionmark is a wildcard in computer programming and means any
> > single character. Others are:
> > "#" (hash) = any single digit.
> Never seen anything use that; what uses that for single digit? (Not
> perl regexp, emacs regexp, POSIX regexp, shell glob).
Visual Basic - I use Excel's VBA. Spreadsheets are perfect for
complicated thought processes; programming is the only way to "read"
stuff using the "Like" operator; and there is only one place those two
facilities co-exist (AFAIAA) and that is in Excel.
Harrison Hill wrote:
> The questionmark is a wildcard in computer programming and means any
> single character. Others are:
> "#" (hash) = any single digit.
> "*" (asterix) = any amount of anything or nothing.
>> The questionmark is a wildcard in computer programming and means any
>> single character. Others are:
>> "#" (hash) = any single digit.
>> "*" (asterix) = any amount of anything or nothing.
Skitt <skit...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Harrison Hill wrote:
> > The questionmark is a wildcard in computer programming and means any
> > single character. Others are:
> > "#" (hash) = any single digit.
> > "*" (asterix) = any amount of anything or nothing.
Skitt <skit...@comcast.net> writes:
> Harrison Hill wrote:
>> The questionmark is a wildcard in computer programming and means any
>> single character. Others are:
>> "#" (hash) = any single digit.
>> "*" (asterix) = any amount of anything or nothing.
David Dyer-Bennet <d...@dd-b.net> writes:
> Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2...@gmail.com> writes:
>> The questionmark is a wildcard in computer programming and means any
>> single character. Others are:
>> "#" (hash) = any single digit.
> Never seen anything use that; what uses that for single digit? (Not
> perl regexp, emacs regexp, POSIX regexp, shell glob).
You see them in formatting descriptions like Perl formats:
format STDOUT =
@### @##.### @#.#
$n, $price, $avg
.
or Excel formats: "#,##0.00".
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| Bergen Evans
> Sure. But output formatting is the opposite of wildcards, which are
> for matching against things.
Wildcards are for any time one symbol stands for any of a set of
symbols.
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> On Feb 10, 2:22 am, Duggy<Paul.Dug...@jcu.edu.au> wrote:
>> On Feb 9, 10:31 pm, Pablo<no...@nowhere.net> wrote:
>>> Harrison Hill escribió:
>>>> "Well ??ounded = Well ?ounded"
>>>> What is this phrase from the COD?
>>> I don't think any English words start with a question mark.
>> I don't think any English phrases include an equals sign.
> Then you are as wrongheaded as Pablo who at least has the advantage
> over you of sounding Spanish. A phrase is a:
> "Mode of expression, diction, as in simple~, felicity of ~; an
> idiomatic expression; small group of words..."
> ...and so on, according to my COD. But maybe you don't think any
> Englsh phrase includes the caret? The clever people have already
> worked out the answer to this and are sitting on their hands...so:
> ### Well grounded = Well founded ###
> To English builders "groundworks" and "foundations" are the same
> thing.
Ah, that makes more sense than my guess, which only got the first one right.
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:37:30 -0800, Skitt <skit...@comcast.net> wrote:
>Harrison Hill wrote:
>> The questionmark is a wildcard in computer programming and means any
>> single character. Others are:
>> "#" (hash) = any single digit.
>> "*" (asterix) = any amount of anything or nothing.
>Asterix?
The gall!
-- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk
