Hi Steve
In your example, instead of using search-string as the variable name what
> if I wanted to set and use the variable name $:/temp/search?
>
I'm not sure I understand $:/temp/search is a tiddler title, not a variable
name. Are you asking if the search term could be stored in a tiddler
instead of a variable?
Best wishes
Jeremy
>
> Thanks for your help.
> Steve Wharton
>
>
> On Thursday, November 27, 2014 8:43:46 AM UTC-5, Jeremy Ruston wrote:
>>
>> Hi Steve
>>
>> You can only use transclusion within filters to transclude an entire
>> operand. With the syntax you've used the curly braces would be considered
>> part of the regexp.
>>
>> So you can do something like this:
>>
>> <$list filter="[!is[system]tags[]regexp{$:/temp/search}]">
>>
>> You can also use variables:
>>
>> \define search-string()
>> (?i)($(search-term)$)
>> \end
>>
>> <$set name="search-term" value="searchme">
>> <$list filter="[!is[system]tags[]regexp<search-string>]"/>
>> </$set>
>>
>> However, not that the search term doesn't get "regexp encoded" so any
>> special regexp characters will not be searched for literally.
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 1:13 PM, steve <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Is there a way to generalize regexp to use a variable?
>>>
>>> I'm trying to modify SearchBox (from http://tesis.tiddlyspot.com/) to
>>> use regular expressions.
>>>
>>> I've succeeded in hardcoding a regular expression to find tags that
>>> contain the string "xyz"
>>> <$list filter="[!is[system]tags[]regexp[(?i)^.+(xyz).+$]]">
>>>
>>> The SearchBox code has an example of finding tags that match a prefix
>>> using a variable
>>> <$list filter="[!is[system]tags[]prefix{$:/temp/search}]">
>>>
>>> Using the Searchbox prefix search as an example, I tried replacing xyz
>>> with
>>> {$:/temp/search} as in
>>>
>>> <$list filter="[!is[system]tags[]regexp[(?i)^.+({$:/temp/search}).+$]]">
>>>
>>> but it doesn't work.
>>>
>>> Steve Wharton
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, November 26, 2014 8:39:04 AM UTC-5, steve wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Tobias
>>>>
>>>> I agree. The one other thing that I might wish for would be to show a
>>>> second list of tags that contain, but do not start with the search string.
>>>>
>>>> Steve Wharton
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, November 25, 2014 8:36:42 PM UTC-5, Tobias Beer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Steve,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> The SearchBox at http://tesis.tiddlyspot.com/ was just what I was
>>>>>> looking for. Thanks to Alberto Molina!
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Actually, besides the fact that I don't like how *tags are hidden*
>>>>> under more,
>>>>> to show the *tags first* in the search results makes total sense.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best wishes, Tobias.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jeremy Ruston
>> mailto:[email protected]
>>
>
>
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