How to filter a list with a variable anywhere in a line

[Keith Clarke]

Thanks Mark - that fixed it (as in, the simpler approach of dropping the brackets). 

Being ‘regex-phobic', I hadn’t picked up the subtle difference between wildcards and ‘formal’ regex in the doc examples. ;-)

Thanks & regards,

Keith

> On 13 Aug 2018, at 16:38, Mark Wieder via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> On 08/13/2018 08:32 AM, Keith Clarke via use-livecode wrote:
>> Folks,
>> I’m trying to filter a list of comma-delimited values to include only the lines that contain a string - somewhere in any of the items.
>> What’s wrong with this syntax - it’s currently returning no lines when I can see tString in the second line of the variable?
>> filter lines of tList with "*[" & tString & "]*"
>> I’m guessing my concatenation fails to create good regex?
> 
> If you really want regex then you have to specify that explictly:
> 
> filter lines of tList with regex pattern "*[" & tString & "]*"
> 
> but my guess is what you want is just
> 
> filter lines of tList with "*" & tString & "*"
> 
> -- 
> Mark Wieder
> ahsoftware at gmail.com
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