Klaus wrote:
Am 04.02.2013 um 18:04 schrieb FlexibleLearning.com:

I have tab-delimited list and am trying to filter lines.

Q1. How do we include a TAB character in the expression? Using filter with
"*\tsomeText" fails.

use the contant TAB:
...
filter tList with ("*" & TAB & "whatever")


While the filter command is seductively simple to use, if your rows have many columns and you're filtering on one several columns in, you may find "repeat for each" will be more efficient:

<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ide.revolution.user/72192/match=filter+tab+gaskin>


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