filter

[Mark Waddingham]

> So I thought
> ...
> filter fld 1 with "[*"
> ...
> would do the job, but that EMPTIES the field!?
> Obviously this [ interferes with some REGEX mechanism of filter?
> So what should I use now?

I think:

   filter fld 1 with "[[]*"

Should do the trick...

Basically, you can use '[...]' to 'escape' the operators in the wildcard 
pattern (i.e. *, [ and ?).

Hope this helps,

Mark.

P.S. Wildcard patterns are a lot simpler than general regexes, but 
'filter' can do both "filter ... with regex pattern ..." interprets the 
pattern the same as matchText/replaceText.

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