[Please do not mail me a copy of your followup] "Niall Douglas" <s_sourceforge@nedprod.com> spake the secret code <53EAD121.12248.215702E4@s_sourceforge.nedprod.com> thusly:
And it would appear you are correct, * and ? are the only two common. I am aware of [seq] and [!seq] for fnmatch, I am not aware of {} sets.
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