I ll take care of this over the weekend. What should the regexp function be called?
On Nov 7, 2016 7:10 PM, "Mathieu Pellerin" <[email protected]> wrote: > You read my mind. Big +1 from me. > > On Nov 7, 2016 6:40 PM, "Matthias Kuhn" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I wonder if we should change this for QGIS 3.0 and use QString::indexOf >> instead, while providing dedicated regexp functions. >> >> What do you think, Mathieu? >> >> Matthias >> >> On 11/07/2016 12:26 PM, Mathieu Pellerin wrote: >> > We should indicate in the function help that strpos is regexp based. >> > >> > >> > On Nov 7, 2016 6:23 PM, "Matthias Kuhn" <[email protected] >> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > strpos is based on regexp, a '.' matches any character. >> > To let the engine treat a . as such you need to prefix it with a >> > double-backslash. >> > >> > strpos(to_string("area"), '\\.') >> > >> > Regards >> > Matthias >> > >> > >> > On 11/07/2016 12:07 PM, Elstermann, Mike wrote: >> > > Hi, >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > “area” is a double-field with values e. g. 213.1234, 43215.3456, >> … >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > strpos("area",'.') gives only value 1 return :-( >> > > >> > > strpos(to_string("area"),'.') gives only value 1 return :-( >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > This error exits only by ‘.’, other search-strings e. g. ‘12’, >> ‘1’, … >> > > work fine >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > Our workarround works fine. >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > strpos( replace( to_string( "area" ), '.', ',' ), ',' ) >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > Is this a bug with ‘.’? >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > best regards, mikeE. >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Qgis-developer mailing list >> > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected] >> sgeo.org> >> > > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> > <http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer> >> > > Unsubscribe: >> > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> > <http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer> >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Qgis-developer mailing list >> > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected] >> sgeo.org> >> > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> > <http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer> >> > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> > <http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer> >> > >> >
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