Using the "or" operator with filter

[Peter M. Brigham]

How about something like this:

put tList into list1
put tList into list2
put tList into list3
filter list1 with "*" & item 1 of gCodes & "*"
filter list2 with "*" & item 2 of gCodes & "*"
filter list3 with "*" & item 3 of gCodes & "*"
put list1 & cr & list2 & cr & list3 into outputList

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
pmbrig at gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig


On Jul 11, 2013, at 11:08 AM, Roger Eller wrote:

> global gCodes
> put tList into tGood; put tList into tBad
> put "PPX,RRY,NNZ" into gCodes
> -- Keep lines that contain any item of gCodes
> filter tGood with ("*" & item 1 of gCodes & "*") or ("*" & item 2 of gCodes
> & "*") or ("*" & item 3 of gCodes & "*")
> filter tBad without ("*" & item 1 of gCodes & "*") or ("*" & item 2 of gCodes
> & "*") or ("*" & item 3 of gCodes & "*")
> 
> Perhaps I should just loop through each line checking if it 'contains' one
> of the codes instead?
> Is there a better approach? <I'm sure there is>...
> 
> ~Roger
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