I think regex (or multiple string comparisons) is too limited a way to go.
I would want to be able to do numeric comparisons, range comparisons, etc. e.g. x is a number, x<25, 24 < x < 33, etc. -- Alex. On 26/08/2017 05:05, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote:
tElement isn't the part that would change (you are still searching against a single value in the array), you would need to modify the comparison to allow for pNeedle to contain multiple values and the operators. It would probably be easier to modify to use a RegEx. If you have 2 comma separated items, you could use something like the following (I'm sure the more experienced can offer much better ways though): *if* (tElement contains item 1 of pNeedle) or (tElement contains item 2 of pNeedle) *then* On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 10:41 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:OK I will bite what would an array representing an "AND/OR" style query look like such that if used as a predicate for else if tElement contains pNeedle then it would return true/false How would you have to construct "tElement" ?? Mark: In terms of generalizing that function - then the key line which checks whether an element matches is: else if tElement contains pNeedle then One could imagine that this could be an arbitrary predicate - pNeedle doesn't have to be a string, so could be an array representing a AND / OR style query; or could be a regex (in which case you'd use matchText). _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode_______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
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