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Old   February 12, 2019, 17:58
Default What is ".*" in pointDisplacement file?
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Hello all,

I just wondered if ".*" means "for all" patches in this snippet from a pointDisplacement file; kind of like in SQL where you use something like "select * from ..."?


Code:
boundaryField
{
    ".*"
    {
        type            uniformFixedValue;
        uniformValue    (0 0 0);
    }
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It is a regex (regular expression) - POSIX flavour.
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It is a regex (regular expression) - POSIX flavour.
What does it mean though, does it simply apply to every patch that is not otherwise defined in the same file?
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Yes. You could test this by removing it -- should trigger a crash and a message to the effect of "patch not defined in pointDisplacement.boundaryField".

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Yes. You could test this by removing it -- should trigger a crash and a message to the effect of "patch not defined in pointDisplacement.boundaryField".

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I see, on wikipedia it says

"s.* matches s followed by zero or more characters, for example: "s" and "saw" and "seed"."
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