On 13 Mar 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> | - string const pattern = "*.(ps|png)| ";
> | + string const pattern = "*.(ps|png)|";
>
> what purpose has the second "|"?
> what cases does it avoid matching on?
>
> Lgb
In the KDE frontend, the stuff after the last "|" is the description of
the mask (e.g. "PostScript documents").
This interface is going away eventually, but for now this is how it is ...
(hence the remaining FIXME)
john
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