I think it should be
filter lines of MyList with (charStringX & TAB & *)
i.e. get lines containing this string X followed by TAB followed by anything
Alex
On 20/04/2017 09:22, Quentin Long via use-livecode wrote:
I have a return-delimited list. Each line of this list consists of [some text] &
tab & [other text]. I want to see all the lines of the list for which [some text]
contains Character String X. This is obviously a job for the filter command, right? So
I try this:
filter lines of MyList with ("*" & CharStringX & "*" & tab)
The result I'm expecting is, a list which contains every line of MyList in
which the [some text] bit contains CharStringX.
The result I get is, a "list" which contains zero lines.
Have tried various alternate forms of the line, including…
filter lines of MyList with ("*" & CharStringX & "*" & numToChar (9))
filter lines of MyList with wildcard pattern ("*" & CharStringX & "*" & tab)
filter lines of MyList matching wildcard pattern ("*" & CharStringX & "*" & tab)
…all of which yield the same results as the original line.
Would appreciate a sanity check: Am I missing some necessary part of the filter syntax?
Does the filter command even know what to do with the constant "tab"? How
*does* one filter for a pattern that includes a tab?
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