On Tue 30 March 2004, 2:54:02 +1000, Marck D Pearlstone wrote: MDP>>> %IF:"%ABtoGender"="0":"Spett.le":"Egr." %- MDP>>> %SETPATTREGEXP="(.*)( - .*)?"%- MDP>>> %REGEXPBLINDMATCH="%ABTOLASTNAME='%TOLNAME'"%- MDP>>> %SUBPATT(1)
JO>> Don't Know why the brackets in ( - .*)? are useless, but it's running JO>> well. > They are important if you have any records without either "- work" > or "- home" at the end. Then the expression will fail to match > completely and result in a blank name. My version is the one to use. When I tried this on an entry with "smith - home" as the last name, the first expression matched the entire last name and left a zero occurrence of the second expression. I thought the way around this was to set the first expression in the regex to be "(.*?)" (I think the term is non-greedy), but that simply failed to match anything then. Can anyone explain why that might be the case? -- Robin Anson Using The Bat! v2.04.7 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.04.7 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
