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ha8ori
29 giu 2022

  • Giapponese
  • Inglese (Stati Uniti)
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  • Spagnolo (Messico)
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"* is a special wildcard character that we have been using."
Could you paraphrase this sentence, especially the "we have been using" part.
I don't get well when exactly is * a wildcard, because I think it's the first time they use and mention about *.

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bucklemaker
29 giu 2022

  • Inglese (Stati Uniti)

First I will try to explain "wildcard".

Consider this word:

P*T

The wildcard * says that this could be any word that has P_T. So it could be PAT, PIT, POT, for example.

If you want a list of files on your computer, you could type:

dir X*

It will show you all of the files that start with X.

dir *X will show you all of the files that end with X.

I guess I would rephrase your sentence as:

"* is a special character which can replace other characters. We use it to make a list of all things which match a pattern."

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ha8ori
30 giu 2022

  • Giapponese
thank you! you know computers very much!
soo, in regard to English grammar, what does "have been using" mean?
I think it's weird to use "have been using", when the wildcard hadn't appeared before the section in the textbook
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bucklemaker
30 giu 2022

  • Inglese (Stati Uniti)

@ha8ori Your understanding of "have been using" is correct. When I read that sentence, I also think that they're saying that the wildcard character has been used before in the textbook. While I don't know what the author means, at least your understanding of the sentence is the same as a native's.

Maybe if I had more context or if I had read the textbook, I'd understand the sentence better.

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ha8ori
30 giu 2022

  • Giapponese
I see, I thought it has a usage that I don't know
Maybe I just missed or forgot the previous parts of the textbook
I think I should read it carefully! Anyways thank you so much for the answers, helped me a lot!
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