Wild card searches

[Alex Rice]

On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 02:41  PM, Mark Powell wrote:

> Is there any way to do wild card searches of the following pseudo-form?
>
> Look at a bunch of text and delete all chunks bracketed by "!" and "/!
> (for example, it should delete both !m/! and !030924/! and leave 
> nothing
> behind.
>
> Thanks in advance

replaceText() takes a regular expression as it's 2nd parameter

put replaceText("xxxx!030924/!yyyy", "!.+/!", empty)
-- says xxxxyyyy

The ".+" means one or more characters. If you get a Perl reference you 
can see how to advanced regular expressions with Rev.

Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
http://ARCplanning.com