filter not working

[Mark Smith]

Paul, the filter command may need some wildcards, otherwise it will  
filter out any lines which contain more than just the filter  
expression, so:

filter pSnips with "*" & tThing & "*"


Best,

Mark

On 3 Jul 2009, at 20:39, pwf wrote:

> I am having a problem with 'filter'.
>
> I'm passing this tab & return delimited data (as an array)...
>
> *SAMPLE*	7/2/09	2	We don't ship kitties to Hong Kong
> No dogs	7/2/09	1	we don't do dogs
> This one	7/2/09	3	This one is that oneAnd this one has paragraphs in
> the field.
>
> using this command
>
> put justThese(gSnips,1) into tList
>
> to this function:
>
> function justThese pSnips,pWhich
>    combine pSnips by return and tab
>    put tab&pWhich&tab into tThing
>    filter pSnips with tThing
>    split pSnips by return and tab
>    return the keys of pSnips
> end justThese
>
>
> which always returns empty because the filter command always puts
> empty back into the variable.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> I confirmed that the error still occurs without the numToChar(8)
> (which apparently won't show up here), which I'm using to swap out CRs
> in that third record.
>
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