lowercase title wildmat Infobox software name wildmat title wildmat logo File screenshot File caption collapsible author developer Rich Salz released Start date YYYY MM DD df yes no discontinued latest release version latest release date Start date and age YYYY MM DD df yes no latest preview version latest preview date Start date and age YYYY MM DD df yes no frequently updated DO NOT include this parameter unless you know what it does programming language operating system platform size language status genre Pattern matching license website wildmat is a pattern matching library developed by Rich Salz . Based on the wildcard character wildcard syntax already used in the Bourne shell , wildmat provides a uniform mechanism for matching patterns across applications with simpler syntax than that typically offered by regular expression s. Patterns are implicitly anchored at the beginning and end of each string when testing for a match. Pattern matching operations There are five pattern matching operations other than a strict one to one match between the pattern and the source to be checked for a match. Asterisk to match any sequence of zero or more characters. Question mark ? to match any single character. Set computer science Set of specified characters. It is specified as a list of characters, or as a range of characters where the beginning and end of the range are separated by a minus or dash character, or as any combination of lists and ranges. The dash can also be included in the set ... with no special meaning. Usage wildmat is most commonly seen in Network News Transfer Protocol ... tar. The full wildmat syntax is unable to handle Variable width encoding multibyte character sets , and poses ... version of wildmat oriented toward UTF 8 encoding has been developed by the Internet Engineering ... 40sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM comp.sources.misc article from Rich Salz containing the wildmat ... Rich Salz wildmat different link Category Pattern matching ... more details
Primary sources date May 2009 Infobox Software name Usenet Explorer logo screenshot caption author developer developer Alex Birj released 2005 latest release version 3.1 latest release date 2010 29 08 latest preview version latest preview date programming language operating system Microsoft Windows Windows platform language status Active genre News client license Proprietary software Proprietary , Shareware website http www.usenetexplorer.com UsenetExplorer.com Usenet Explorer is a news client for the Microsoft Windows operating system also fully compatible with the Linux Wine software Citation needed date April 2011 . It is designed to handle binary and text Usenet posts, and is capable of handling newsgroups as large as hundred million headers Citation needed date April 2011 . A Usenet indexing service with 750 day retention and Boolean logic boolean wildmat as search pattern language is integrated into the program. Releases following v2.0 include automatic unpacking feature par2 repair unrar joining split files without user intervention when using integrated search or nzb file as a download source the download is presented as a single combined entry so called custom collection and all the way to the ready to view or listen media files then becomes seamless and completely automatic. This simple routine makes the program valuable to novice Usenet users. Usenet Explorer supports all existing standards for compressing headers and includes native x64 version. The program is shareware , posting and par2 repair QuickPar replacement features are free. See also List of Usenet newsreaders Comparison of Usenet newsreaders External links http www.usenetexplorer.com UsenetExplorer.com Category Usenet clients Category Shareware network software stub ... more details
One source date September 2010 Some Usenet News client newsreaders , especially in the Unix world, have tried to make it easier to find interesting postings and mail filter filter useless ones. To accomplish this, these newsreaders provide so called scorefiles , which are sets of rules that, when triggered, alter the rating, or score , of a post. This is a refinement of the earlier kill file mechanism, providing values indicating the relative goodness of an article rather than the kill file s simpler yes no display rules. For example, any post by author Donald Knuth might be automatically scored high, whereas one by Script kiddie Script Kiddie might be scored lower. Sometimes more than one rule is triggered by an individual post, making an otherwise hidden post visible or vice versa. The scores can then be used to sort the posts or even to delete all posts below a certain threshold. Scorefiles generally use some form of regular expression syntax and or wildmat s for pattern matching. In spite of their usefulness, scorefiles are an individual undertaking. Some users post their scorefiles regularly, but this is the exception typically this data is not openly shared and collaboration collaborated on. Examples of popular news client newsreaders that support scorefiles include 40tude Dialog , gnus , Pan newsreader Pan , Slrn , tin newsreader tin and Xnews XNews Claws Mail is an e mail client implementing scorefiles. Each client has its own variations of syntax for scoring, but the essentials remain the same. Questions about scorefiles are on topic in the newsgroup news.software.readers . Example of an Slrn scorefile A percentage sign indicates that what follows is a comment computing comment . This rule applies to all newsgroups Score 100 The article s score is reduced by 100... Subject Make Money Fast ...if the subject header contains this phrase news.admin.net abuse sightings This rule applies only in the specified newsgroup Score 200 The article s score is increased b ... more details
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