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 <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>, wrote: > 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 lines in the text containing the acronym “ asl ” > (nowhere are quotes actually included in fields or variables, they’re just in > this mail). I pad with spaces so as not to find “asleep”. I also want to find > “asl?” > > So I repeat through lines of the keyword field “location" > > Filter lines of tsource with tpattern > > … which works for everything except fails to match “asl?”. It occurred to me > that perhaps the question mark is being interpreted as a regex symbol, so I > tried changing the line in the field to read “ asl/?”, but that doesn’t find > the “asl?” that I can see in the third line of the text to be searched…. > > > shadownave (09/16/14 1:44:58 AM): hey care to chat > shadownave (09/16/14 1:45:09 AM): hey care to chat > what_sez_moo (09/16/14 1:45:18 AM): sure asl? > what_sez_moo (09/16/14 1:45:52 AM): 13 / F / Ashton here > shadownave (09/16/14 1:51:00 AM): 25/m/Derby > shadownave (09/16/14 1:51:03 AM): how r u tonight > what_sez_moo (09/16/14 1:51:16 AM): bored. > > > What am I doing wrong? Is this something to do with regex? > > Oh yes, and I thought there might be invisible characters messing things up, > so I exported source text as plain text from BBedit, with no improvement. > > best wishes > > David Glasgow > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
