filter command - problems

[Chris Sheffield]

Please ignore this post. I seem to be suffering from a major brain  
cramp today. :-)

The filter does indeed work as expected. Sorry to bother everyone.

Chris


On Nov 13, 2006, at 9:28 AM, Chris Sheffield wrote:

> 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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