filter question

[Chris Sheffield]

I'm not really 100% sure to be honest.  I think it's because in my  
case I have to account for filtering with only a partial string.  So  
for example, if my user enters "a", the filter needs to return any  
records where say the third item of each line begins with "a".

Because Phil's solution uses tabs around the filter string (tab & fld  
"filter" & tab), it doesn't work quite right for me.  I tried a  
couple different modifications, including placing *'s between the  
filter string and the tabs, to make it work for me but couldn't find  
anything that worked in all cases.

Hope that provides you with a little more information.

Chris


On Mar 14, 2006, at 12:25 PM, Jim Ault wrote:

> Hey, Chris,
>
> I know you probably don't have the time, but I am wondering why Phil's
> solution did not work.  I use the filter command all the time and  
> Phil had
> the correct syntax and useage, as far as I could see.
>
> Mostly just curiosity to find exceptions or tricky problems for future
> reference.  Surprised it did not work.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas
>
>
> On 3/14/06 11:01 AM, "Chris Sheffield" <cmsheffield at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Sarah.  I ended up going with a solution similar to this to
>> get the job done.  I thought Phil's suggestion would have worked, and
>> that's what I was trying to do, but unfortunately it didn't.
>>
>> But thanks to all who responded.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>> On Mar 13, 2006, at 5:08 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
>>
>>> It might be faster to filter the list simply to reduce it to lines
>>> that contain the filter string anywhere, and then do a loop to check
>>> if the filter string is in the correct item.
>>>
>>> -- gather the original data and the required settings
>>> put fld "List" into tList
>>> put fld "Filter into Filter
>>> put 3 into tItemNum
>>>
>>> -- do the first filter to reduce the list
>>> filter tList with "*" & tFilter & "*"
>>>
>>> -- loop through making sure it appears in the right item
>>> put empty into tMatches
>>> repeat for each line L in tList
>>>   if item tItemNum of L contains tFilter then put L & cr after
>>> tMatches
>>> end repeat
>>>
>>> -- remove the trailing cr
>>> delete last char of tMatches
>>>
>>> -- display the matching results
>>> put tMatches into fld "Results"
>>>
>>> Sarah
>>>
>>> On 3/14/06, Phil Davis <davis.phil at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>> Hi Chris,
>>>>
>>>> To filter on column 3, are you using something like this?
>>>>
>>>>    put fld "list" into tList
>>>>    filter tList \
>>>>        with "*" & tab & "*" & tab & fld "filter" & tab & "*"
>>>>    put tList into fld "list"
>>>>
>>>> Phil Davis
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Chris Sheffield wrote:
>>>>> I'm trying to apply a filter to a list field.  The columns of
>>>>> the  field
>>>>> are tab delimited.  I have a separate "filter" field that  allows
>>>>> the
>>>>> user to apply a filter to the list based on whichever  column  
>>>>> is the
>>>>> current sort column.  I can get the filter to work fine  so long
>>>>> as the
>>>>> first column is selected, but anything else does not  work.
>>>>>
>>>>> How can I apply a filter to a list based on say item 3 of each
>>>>> line  of
>>>>> that list?  Is that possible?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Chris
>>>>>
>>>>>
>
>
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