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André Martins wrote:
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>> I know I can use a variable in regular expressions. I want to use a
>> regex to find something based on the beginning o
> I know I can use a variable in regular expressions. I want to use a
> regex to find something based on the beginning of the string. I am
> using yesterday's date to find all of my data from yesterday.
> Yesterday's date is 20070731, and assigned to the variable
> "yesterday_date". I want to loop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I know I can use a variable in regular expressions. I want to use a
> regex to find something based on the beginning of the string. I am
> using yesterday's date to find all of my data from yesterday.
> Yesterday's date is 20070731, and assigned to the variable
> "yesterd
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I know I can use a variable in regular expressions. I want to use a
>regex to find something based on the beginning of the string.
You're coming from a Perl background, right? No-one else would
think of using a regexp for such a simple thing. There are two
things you n
...
> Yesterday's date is 20070731, and assigned to the variable
> "yesterday_date". I want to loop thru a directory and find all of the
> yesterday's data ONLY IF the feature class has the date at the
> BEGINNING of the filename.
...
> I can't figure out the
> syntax of inserting the "^" into the
On 2007-08-02, at 13:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I know I can use a variable in regular expressions. I want to use a
> regex to find something based on the beginning of the string. I am
> using yesterday's date to find all of my data from yesterday.
> Yesterday's date is 20070731, and assigned