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[Ken Corey]

How about this:
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repeat for each line myLine in myList
   if matchText(myLine, \
     "([^\t]*)\t([^\t]*)\t([^\t]*)\t([^\t]*)$", \
     myVar1, myVar2, myVar3, myVar4) then

     if myVar1="foo" and myVar3="bar" and myVar4="baz" then
       -- take some action here
     end if
   end if
end repeat

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I'm typing this from memory, and I'm not sure about that repeat 
statement.  I always seem to need to look it up.

This assumes, of course, that the fields cannot have tab characters in them.

-Ken

On 30/01/2012 17:35, Marty Knapp wrote:
> Let's say I have a tab delimited list with 4 items and I want to find a
> match to my search string, except I don't care what item 2 is - it could
> be a number, a word or be empty, but I want to find the occurrences
> where items 1, 3 & 4 match. What's the fastest way to do that?