Multiple arguments with the filter command

2006-10-25 Thread Mark Powell
Another text filtering question, please. I have studied the archives but have not found precisely the solution that works. I have a container vContainer of file names, each line of the form directory/!?!filename!/filesize/creationdate Here are three literal examples: C:/The

Re: Multiple arguments with the filter command

2006-10-25 Thread Jim Ault
On 10/25/06 9:04 AM, Mark Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another text filtering question, please. I have studied the archives but have not found precisely the solution that works. I have a container vContainer of file names, each line of the form

Re: Multiple arguments with the filter command

2006-10-25 Thread Marielle Lange
Would this help? put ps,europe into tSearch repeat for each item tItem in tSearch replace tItem with % tItem in tFileList end repeat filter tFileList with *%* replace % with in tFileList This does a or choice and returns the file that contain ps or europe. I let you work out

Re: Multiple arguments with the filter command

2006-10-25 Thread Marielle Lange
One catch is that if the user inputs something like 53, the operation must recognize the fact that the 53 in the first two examples is not a part of the file name, thereby filtering them out, but that 53 is a part of the file name in the third example, thereby filtering it in. This is one

Re: Multiple arguments with the filter command

2006-10-25 Thread Marielle Lange
Correction: [^/%]*)%?([^/%]* into ([^/%]*)%?([^/%]*)+ which means one or more repetitions of that pattern. This was untested. There is obviously a problem with the parentheses. You could try this: [^/%]*)%?([^/]* but this will only replace the first %53, not the second one. That

RE: Multiple arguments with the filter command

2006-10-25 Thread Mark Powell
you have seen with the brute force approach like the one above? Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Powell Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:04 AM To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Subject: Multiple arguments with the filter

Re: Multiple arguments with the filter command

2006-10-25 Thread Mark Smith
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Powell Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:04 AM To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Subject: Multiple arguments with the filter command Another text filtering question, please. I have studied the archives but have not found

Re: Multiple arguments with the filter command

2006-10-25 Thread Marielle Lange
are the risks you have seen with the brute force approach like the one above? Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Powell Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:04 AM To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Subject: Multiple arguments with the filter

Re: Multiple arguments with the filter command

2006-10-25 Thread Jim Ault
On 10/25/06 12:54 PM, Mark Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to both Jim and Marielle for their awesome feedback. Instead of asking specific questions about the details of your feedback, I want to ask a general performance question. The filter does work within a repeat loop like this:

RE: Multiple arguments with the filter command

2006-10-25 Thread Mark Powell
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marielle Lange Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 2:32 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: Multiple arguments with the filter command Yep, this was the fast solution to the and problem ;-). Best strategy to adopt then is to first sort the search items