Problem with filter and regex

[Charles E Buchwald]

OK, then how about this:
^[a-z]\d+
That translates as... start of line, plus 1 alphabetic character, plus one or more digits.
- Charles

On 10 Jul 2014, at 10:06 AM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel <skip at magicgate.com> wrote:

> I additionally noticed that if my search term is b108 it also pulls over
> b108-option1, b108-option2, etc.
> 
> I need it to only filter b108 and not those other items.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel <
> skip at magicgate.com> wrote:
> 
>> I am reading the data from a datagrid into a variable before applying the
>> filter so it would be a TAB delimiter.
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 9:52 AM, John Craig <john at splash21.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Which item delimiter are you using?  For example, if it's a TAB, maybe
>>> you can specify a pattern ending with a tab, but disallowing any further
>>> tabs..
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 10/07/2014 14:42, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I think I have found the cause of the issue, now I need to figure out how
>>>> to solve it.
>>>> 
>>>> The regex pattern I am looking for appears in other lines because there
>>>> is
>>>> a description field that lists "related parts."  The one consistency I
>>>> have
>>>> is that the pattern I am comparing to should be looking only at column 1
>>>> of
>>>> tdg2Text
>>>> 
>>>> I know this is not accurate but is there a way to say something like
>>>> this:
>>>> filter lines of ITEM1 of tdg2Text with regex pattern tRegexp into tTemp
>>>> 
>>>> Trying to limit the filter based on the first item in that line VS the
>>>> entire line.
>>>> 
>>>> Ideas?
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> SKIP
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Bernard Devlin <bdrunrev at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I haven't use the filter by regex pattern, but perhaps try putting the
>>>>> "End
>>>>> of Line" marker ($) at the end of your regex.  You may need the "Start
>>>>> of
>>>>> Line" marker too.
>>>>> 
>>>>> ^.*cat.*mat$
>>>>> 
>>>>> ^ is the Start of Line marker.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Bernard
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel <
>>>>> skip at magicgate.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hello LC'ers
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I am comparing two lists using the following:
>>>>>>        filter lines of tdg2Text with regex pattern tRegexp into tTemp
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The problem I have is that this is pulling up multiple lines in
>>>>>> tdg2Text
>>>>>> when if fact I need to filter out a specific line.  tRegExp should
>>>>>> MATCH
>>>>>> (exactly) item 1 of tdg2Text.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Make sense?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> SKIP

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