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[Richard Gaskin]

dunbarx wrote:

 > 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?

When I run that I get:

   aabb

What does your full handler look like?


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