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Subject: WHICH returns only first match !?!
From: Werner Uhrig <werner @ rascal . ics . utexas . edu>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 93 2:54:44 CDT
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Reply-to: werner @ rascal . ics . utexas . edu (Werner Uhrig)


	the admin of a list I set up for remote moderation on my
	machine just sent me the following note:

P.P.S.: I only had one surprise. It seems that WHICH <string> only
returns the first occurrence of <string>. I expected it to return all
occurrences. This behavior would seem to force the administrator to
understand the string matcher and put closely similar addresses (like
smith@mcc.com and bsmith@mcc.com) in a certain order in the files. Or
am I missing something? It's not like the situation would arise that
often.

	I've not updated to 1.56 or 1.60 yet, but as I don't recall that
	this matter has received any remarks, it's likely to be still
	the way things work...

	I'd consider it reasonable to report all "hits" and not just
	the first, don't you?!?


+----------------------+  
| werner@cs.utexas.edu |  what?  a $980 million transistor?
+----------------------+  (must be part of the SDI hoax...)



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