filter command - problems

[Chris Sheffield]

Can anyone tell me why this isn't working?

I've got a field with contents like this:

1.0[tab]3[tab]0[tab]3
1.3[tab]1[tab]0[tab]1
1.5[tab]2[tab]0[tab]2
2.0[tab]5[tab]0[tab]5
3.0i[tab]50[tab]0[tab]50
4.5c[tab]1[tab]0[tab]1
8.0[tab]10[tab]0[tab]10

Where [tab] = an actual tab character. I want to apply a filter like  
this:

filter tLevelInfoTemp with (item 1 of tLicense & tab & "*")

The variable tLevelInfoTemp contains the contents of the field, where  
"item 1 of tLicense" would contain one of the values in the first  
column of the field contents (1.0, 1.3, 1.5, etc.). For some reason  
the above filter does not work. I get an empty string returned. It  
seems like I've used this kind of filter before and had it work just  
fine, but maybe I'm wrong about that. If I remove the tab from the  
filter, it sort of works. For example, if item 1 of tLicense is  
"3.0i", I do get back that line. However, if item 1 of tLicense is  
"3.0", I still get back the line starting with "3.0i", which is not  
what I want.

So why is it I can't use the tab as part of the filter to help  
identify the correct line? Or am I going about this filter thing all  
wrong? Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Chris



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Chris Sheffield
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