Filter and the Question Mark (escaping ? in regex)

[Robert Sneidar]

It's my understanding that * means 0 to any number of characters, in which case these are both the same thing. I might be wrong though. Might explain why some of my filtering is not working as expected. :-)

Bob


On Jan 23, 2013, at 3:30 AM, Thierry Douez wrote:

> Hi Malte,
> 
> for any position of ? in a line:  filter tText with "*[?]*"
> 
> for the last char of a line:  filter tText with "*[?]"
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Thierry
> 
> 
> 2013/1/23 Malte Brill <revolution at derbrill.de>
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I got a var tText that contains:
>> 
>> asdf
>> jkl?
>> bcdk
>> 
>> I want to do something like this
>> 
>> filter tText with "*\?*"
>> 
>> which should leave me with only jkl?.
>> 
>> 
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