[GRASS-dev] Wildcards in multiple map input?

Moritz Lennert mlennert at club.worldonline.be
Thu Sep 10 08:20:45 PDT 2015


On 10/09/15 16:07, Blumentrath, Stefan wrote:
> Hi Anna,
>
> Thanks for your reply. The closest I found was this:
>
> https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1251
>
> Might be dangerous to use an asterisk at command / parser level as the
> result of the evaluation (meaning the resulting list of maps) is not
> necessarily known to the user in advance (or may be different from what
> he or she expects)!?

Especially when maps from other mapsets might be read as well. I agree 
that this is a potentially dangerous feature and believe that a solution 
on GUI level, with possibility of intermediate control by the user of 
the list of selected maps, might be safer.

Moritz



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