Filtering FIle Types

[JB]

Thank you.

Is there a regex that will work
with Revolution?

John Balgenorth


On Sep 2, 2014, at 8:18 AM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:

> Thew new syntax for the filter command (don;t recall which version it was
> introduced but it works in 6.6.2) lets you filter with a regular
> expression, so the following will do it in one filter command, no need to
> repeat for each line:
> 
> filter lines of tFiles with regex pattern ".*\.jpg|png"
> 
> Just replace the "jpg|png" with a list of the file types you are looking
> for separated by the "|" character
> 
> Pete
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> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:28 PM, JB <sundown at pacifier.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have not tried it yet but if it works
>> the problem is I might want to use
>> a variety of file types so the repeat
>> would filter one line at a time and
>> then you check for that type in the
>> list of types you will allow.
>> 
>> The way you provided would need it
>> to allow a list of types or I would need
>> to keep filtering so there might be a
>> faster way but I am not sure.
>> 
>> Thank you for the reply and code advice.
>> 
>> John Balgenorth
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 1, 2014, at 1:24 PM, Martin Koob <mkoob at rogers.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> I think you can use the filter command with a wildcard and your
>> extension.
>>> Put your folder path into tMyFolderPath then:
>>> 
>>> set the folder to tMyFolderPath
>>> put the files into theFiles
>>> filter theFiles with "*.jpg"
>>> 
>>> Martin
>>> 
>>> 
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