Newbie2

dunbarx dunbarx at aol.com
Fri Dec 5 15:33:22 EST 2008


Back in the day, HC listMembers had enormous patience with certain people. They were indulgent. Time will tell.

I have a variable "foo"  (remember foo?) containing:

aabb
bbcc
ccdd
abc
bcd

and a script that has:


   filter foo with "a*b"
   answer foo

I get empty in foo, when what I am looking for is a substitute for Rinaldi's "fullFind"

Changing the wildcard characters changes nothing.  OK, what am I doing wrong?



On Dec 5, 2008, at 1:12:17 PM, "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
From:   "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
Subject:    Re: Newbie
Date:   December 5, 2008 1:12:17 PM EST
To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
dunbarx wrote:
> Colin! Mark!
> 
> I feel better already. Is Catherine Kunicki here?

Hi Craig! Great to see you here. Don't think Cat's here. You should poke
her to join. :)

> 
> Mark, you are correct, it is intermittant. Now msg works fine. And I 
> see it tells you the current stack.
> 

As you noticed, there's a slight bug in the message box. But when it is
working properly you can click on the stack name, and select the stack
you want it to target from a popup list. That's a very nice feature.

> Great.
> 
> How do you live without Rinaldi? I know that it is possible to work 
> around anything, one always could. But I am going to miss "fullFind".
> 
> 

I have only needed an external once in all the years I've been using
Rev, and that was for a very specialized application. All the other 
stuff we used to use externals for is now built into the engine. I 
really doubt you'll ever need to implement an external. The language has 
3 or 4 times as many commands and functions as you-know-what. ;)

FullFind can be replaced with the "filter" command, or by using any one
of the various offset functions. If you choose to use offset, be sure to
use the "skip" parameter or else you will be searching the same text
repeatedly.

-- 
Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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