matchText

[Robert Mann]

Don't think I am getting the syntext correct this is returning nothing
matchText("tword1","^tword$")
tword1 and tword are both variables


Thanks
Rob

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Gordon Tillman
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 10:42 AM
To: How to use Revolution
Subject: Re: matchText

On Jan 21, 2007, at 09:23, Robert Mann wrote:

> but I just relized that it is also selecting any strings that have  
> that
> pattern, is there a way to only select exact matches?

Robert you just need to add a bit to the regular expression part to  
tell it that you want to match the entire string.

For example:

matchText("record_id","^record_id$")  -- returns true

But

matchText("orig_record_id","^record_id$")  -- returns false

The "^" at the start of the regex binds whatever follows to the very  
beginning of the string. The "$" at the end of the regex binds  
whatever comes before it to the very end of the string.

--gordy
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