Oddly enough a matchChunk expression with "with you$" pulls out all the 'with you' stuff and excludes this sort of thing: 'with youthful naivety' . . . which is marvellous

But a matchChunk expression with "with u$" catches nothing!

On 30.10.23 20:11, Craig Newman via use-livecode wrote:
Have not played with a method of keeping it all in one line. But can you filter 
twice, storing the first result and then running it again?

Craig

On Oct 30, 2023, at 1:17 PM, David Glasgow via use-livecode 
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:

Hi folks,

I am doing the above and struggling with an oddity that I can’t find guidance 
on on Livecode or wider wildcard stuff

A simple example is I am searching text messages for 'with you' or 'with u’

so I use the wildcard form

*with [you,u]*

That finds all examples of both just fine.  However, it also finds ‘with 
unlimited cheese’ and 'with us’, ‘with yours’ etc.  so I want a space after 
both u

When I put two spaces inside the square brackets after each string, the search 
still works but spaces seem to be ignored (so still finds the above resamples I 
don’t want).

If I put a single space after the brackets the first bracketed string is 
ignored and the filter only finds “with u “

Hope someone can help me stop pulling my baffled face

Cheers

David Glasgow


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