Re: Use variable in regular expression

2007-08-02 Thread Steve Holden
[when replying to a mailing list or newsgroup response please make sure you include the list as a recipient, so the whole conversation is available] André Martins wrote: > >> I know I can use a variable in regular expressions. I want to use a >> regex to find something based on the beginning o

Re: Use variable in regular expression

2007-08-02 Thread André Martins
> 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

Re: Use variable in regular expression

2007-08-02 Thread Steve Holden
[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

Re: Use variable in regular expression

2007-08-02 Thread Sion Arrowsmith
<[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

Re: Use variable in regular expression

2007-08-02 Thread vbr
... > 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

Re: Use variable in regular expression

2007-08-02 Thread Antti Rasinen
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