Filter command not working with tabs??

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Bob,

> filter theDropData without "*" & theFilter & "*"


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On 3 jun 2010, at 00:18, Bob Sneidar wrote:

> Hi all. I cannot see what I am doing wrong here. Try this  
> yourselves. In the message box put:
>
> put "test" & tab & tab & return & \
> "sw_" & tab & tab & return & \
> "sw_test3" & tab & "<" & tab & return into theDropData
> put tab & tab into theFilter
> filter theDropData without theFilter
> put theDropData
>
> I get:
> test		
> sw_		
> sw_test3	<	
>
> NOTICE if you will, that lines 1 & 2 have 2 tabs together, and 3  
> does not. The filter command here should give me just line 3  
> shouldn't it??
>
> Perhaps I do not understand the filter command or regular  
> expressions very well, but the command reference seems to indicate  
> that I should filter out all the lines that do not contain two tabs,  
> but it is not doing this. It looks for all the world like the filter  
> command is completely ignoring tabs in the expression!
>
> Bob
>