regex

Dan Shafer revdan at danshafer.com
Sat Sep 11 14:29:45 EDT 2004


First of all, matchText requires two arguments, a string to be searched 
and a regular expression to be used for the search. You may have just 
given us an abbreviated part of the call, but I thought I should point 
that out.

Not tested, but I suspect:

put fld "findwhat" into whatToFind
matchtext (stringToSearch, whatToFind)

would work fine.

Of course, matchtext (stringToSearch, fld "findwhat") might also work.

Dan

On Sep 11, 2004, at 6:08 AM, Nicholas Thieberger wrote:

>
> How can I get a regex to take the search expression from a field?
> This doesn't work
>       matchtext (fld  "findwhat")
>
> thanks
>
> nick
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