I will need to verify, but ‘?’ should match exactly one character, so
Thanks,
Brian
On Sep 2, 2018, 3:44 AM -0500, David V Glasgow via use-livecode
, wrote:
> For the record, this was my stupidity, nothing to do with escaping wildcards.
> Filter lines doesn’t treat a question mark as anything bu
For the record, this was my stupidity, nothing to do with escaping wildcards.
Filter lines doesn’t treat a question mark as anything but text.
The script I posted didn’t find 'asl?’ because I forgot to pre- and post- pend
an asterisk before filtering. So, connected to wildcards, but I was de
Ah! So its just a wildcard! Brilliant. Why didn’t I think of that?
I was wrongly barking up the Regex tree, and making things more complicated
than needed.
Thank you Brian.
Cheers
David G
> On 31 Aug 2018, at 3:35 pm, Brian Milby via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> Need to put question mark
Need to put question mark in brackets “[?]” when using wildcard filters if you
want to match a literal question mark. Otherwise it signifies a single
character match to anything.
Thanks,
Brian
On Aug 31, 2018, 9:12 AM -0500, David V Glasgow via use-livecode
, wrote:
> Hello, folks.
>
> I am und
Hello, folks.
I am undertaking keyword searches of chat logs. The keywords are stored as
themed lists in fields.
One of the things I am interested in is finding lines where one contributor
asks another about where they live, shop, go to school etc etc. So, (among
other phrases) I filter for
