Hi Bob,
You are wrong and right :)
Right because that's how regex works in most environment.
Wrong because regex inside Livecode behave sometimes in strange ways...
Anyway, be happy.
Thierry
2013/1/23 Robert Sneidar slylab...@me.com
I mean Thierry
I just checked this, and Malte is
Hi,
I got a var tText that contains:
asdf
jkl?
bcdk
I want to do something like this
filter tText with *\?*
which should leave me with only jkl?. This does not appear to work. Any
pointers on how to correctly escape the question mark greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Malte
Malte,
Try this:
filter tText with *[?]*
Kind regards,
Mark
On 1/23/2013 11:49 AM, Malte Brill wrote:
Hi,
I got a var tText that contains:
asdf
jkl?
bcdk
I want to do something like this
filter tText with *\?*
which should leave me with only jkl?. This does not appear to work. Any
Hi Malte,
for any position of ? in a line: filter tText with *[?]*
for the last char of a line: filter tText with *[?]
Regards,
Thierry
2013/1/23 Malte Brill revolut...@derbrill.de
Hi,
I got a var tText that contains:
asdf
jkl?
bcdk
I want to do something like this
filter tText
It's my understanding that * means 0 to any number of characters, in which case
these are both the same thing. I might be wrong though. Might explain why some
of my filtering is not working as expected. :-)
Bob
On Jan 23, 2013, at 3:30 AM, Thierry Douez wrote:
Hi Malte,
for any position
I just checked this, and Malte is correct. I see now why the second example
would only select lines ending in ?. I should probably remove expert in regex
from my resume? ;-)
Bob
On Jan 23, 2013, at 3:30 AM, Thierry Douez wrote:
Hi Malte,
for any position of ? in a line: filter tText
I mean Thierry
I just checked this, and Malte is correct. I see now why the second example
would only select lines ending in ?. I should probably remove expert in
regex from my resume? ;-)
Bob
On Jan 23, 2013, at 3:30 AM, Thierry Douez wrote:
Hi Malte,
for any position of ? in
