Filter command not working with tabs??

[Jim Ault]

The filter command works on wildcards, not regex

Your filter definition = keep lines that are not exactly "tabtab"

You might be thinking
put "*" & tab & tab & "*" into theFiliter
= which means keep lines that do not have at least two tabs in sequence

On Jun 2, 2010, at 3:18 PM, 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

Jim Ault
Las Vegas