Filter and the Question Mark (escaping ? in regex)

[Thierry Douez]

Hi Bob,

You are wrong and right :)

Right because that's how regex works in most  environment.

Wrong because regex inside Livecode behave sometimes in strange ways...

Anyway, be happy.

Thierry


2013/1/23 Robert Sneidar <slylabs13 at me.com>

> I mean Thierry
>
> > I just checked this, and Malte is correct. I see now why the second
> example would only select lines ending in ?. I should probably remove
> "expert in regex" from my resume? ;-)
> >
> > 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
>