Ah! So its just a wildcard! Brilliant. Why didn’t I think of that? I was wrongly barking up the Regex tree, and making things more complicated than needed.
Thank you Brian. Cheers David G > On 31 Aug 2018, at 3:35 pm, Brian Milby via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
