BTW, what is it today? Official RegExp Day?
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Wagner Amaral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
> The error you're getting is actually syntatical. Here's what you wrote:
> re.(attribute())
> And what you should've done:
> re.test(attribute())
>
> Since re is an object of type RegExp, you want to call the method test() on
> it, and I guess it will work then
>
> Also, I believe this is more concise:
> xml..*.topic.
> instead of:
> xml.topics..topic.*.
>
> Still, I've got a bizarre behaviour when testing this out, I'll post a new
> thread shortly describing the problem.
>
> Wagner
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Merrill, Jason <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> OK, so based on what I just picked out of the "E4X, regexp and user
>> input" thread, I tried to mix some XML and a regex to solve my problem,
>> but I didn't get too far, and again, really don't know what I'm doing
>> with regular expressions, and I'm not quite a pro at E4X yet. I am
>> getting this error when I try and search on [EMAIL PROTECTED] attribute
>> values:
>>
>> "Filter operator not supported on type RegExp."
>>
>> based on this code:
>>
>> var re:RegExp = new RegExp("^" + searchInput.text);
>> var xmlListSearch:XMLList = xml.topics..topic.*.( re.(
>> attribute("title")));
>>
>> Which is drawing from this XML:
>>
>> <data>
>> <topics>
>> <topic title="Coldplay's New Album" />
>> <topic title="The Dark Knight" />
>> <topic title="Arrested Development: The Movie" />
>> ...etc.
>>
>> Any ideas? Thanks.
>>
>>
>> Jason Merrill
>> Bank of America
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