evaluated string for filter doesn't work

Andre Garzia andre at andregarzia.com
Mon Jul 28 23:58:35 EDT 2008


Aum Swami,

I use this all the time in our stacks, I use double asterisks like:

put "*.jpg*" into tFilter
filter tFiles with tFilter

and it works.

Andre

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Sivakatirswami <katir at hindu.org> wrote:
> Field "extension" contains ".jpg"
>
> script has
>
>  put ("*" & fld "extension") into tFilter
>  filter tFiles with (quote &tFilter & quote)
>  put tFiles into fld "Listing"
>
> result "nada!"
>
> Why?
>
> filter tFiles with "*.jpg" works
>
> and
>
> put tFilter
>
> returns
> *.jpg
>
> I tried this too:
>
>  put (quote & "*" & fld "extension" & quote) into tFilter
> filter tFiles with tFilter
>  put tFiles into fld "Listing"
>
> still "nada"
>
> ??
>
>
>
>
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