Synook Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Just out of interest, how do you read out the * in "SELECT * FROM"? Personally I always said "ex", though I recently realized how strange that is. "Star"? "Asterisk"? "All"? Hmm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffman Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 As you know, it's called an asterisk. Most people I know read it aloud as "star," but that comes from telephone culture more than computer culture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexnofue Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Hi, I always read it "all" as that is what one is trying to do, but as they say "a rose with a ....".it could be something like "SELECT wink FROM" or "SELECT mommy FROM" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jesh Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 If I'm referring to the character "*" itself, I always say "asterisk" - "The fields marked with an asterisk are required."In the case of queries, I always say "star". "SELECT * FROM" is "select star from" and "dir *.txt" is "D-I-R star dot text". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justsomeguy Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 I say "star". That also comes from the days of DOS like jesh mentioned. If I write "del *.*" I read that as "star dot star". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
real_illusions Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 I say it as 'star' here. Asterisk only when writing it as jesh says on forms, but i rarely do that anymore.So, star it is for me (even though its technically an asterisk) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justsomeguy Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 What really irritates me is whoever wrote this:http://www.php.net/manual/en/regexp.reference.phpIf I tell you that in order to match any character at the start of a pattern that you need to use a circumflex followed by a full stop, are you going to know what I mean? Does anyone younger than Dad even know what a full stop is (you're into things like Morse code and teletype, right Dad)? For the past 20 years I've been saying "caret" and "dot", I guess I should have been saying "circumflex" and "full stop"."Uh yeah.. to delete everything just type del space asterisk full stop asterisk and then press the line feed key"And don't even get me started on "inverted commas". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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