oops, splitBefore[W] was a placeholder; it would be splitbefore[regexp[A-Z]]
On Friday, March 17, 2017 at 5:37:17 PM UTC-4, stevesuny wrote: > > Yes, number string is unique. > > I've been working with the regexp, but can't quite get it to work... > > This is what I've got: > > <$set name="digit-pattern" value="[0-9]{2} [0-9]{2}"> ||> this is > the unique pattern that begins each tiddler > <$list filter="[regexp:title<digit-pattern>]"> ||> > this (currently) gets all matching tiddlers > 1 <<currentTiddler>><br> > <$set name="shortName" value=[{!!title}splitbefore[W]]> > 2 <<shortName>><br> ||> i was hoping that <<shortName>> would be > the first five chars > </$list> > > > > On Friday, March 17, 2017 at 5:29:55 PM UTC-4, PMario wrote: >> >> Hi Steve, >> >> Is your number prefix unique? So there is only one tiddler that matches? >> It would be possible to create a regexp filter - list - link - macro >> >> -m >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/d8ed6f05-ad1d-48b6-bf6f-749b7b358ab0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.