Filter probelm

[Bob Sneidar]

Doesn't "*" mean 0 to any number of characters? You would only want to distinguish if you only wanted lines that began with or ended with tab. 

Bob


On Mar 13, 2012, at 9:35 PM, Terry Judd wrote:

> 
> On 14/03/2012, at 02:52 PM, Pete wrote:
> 
> Unless I'm doing something wrong, "filter tvar without tab" doesn't work,
> that is the lines with a tab remain in tvar after the filter command.
> 
> Suer would be nice to have that work when dynamically building the contents
> of a popup menu with indented lines in it...
> 
> That would only work if the lines you wanted to filter out only contained a tab character. If they contain other stuff then you need one of the following...
> 
> filter tvar without ("*"&tab&"*") -- if the tab can be anywhere in the line
> filter tvar without (tab&"*") -- if the tab is at the start of the line, or
> filter tvar without ("*"&tab) -- if the tab is at the end of the line
> 
> Terry...
> 
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> Pete
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