Problems with Filter?

[Rick Harrison]

put "THIS*FIND" into tTarget

put “abcdefghijkTHISISMYTEXTTOFINDlmnopqrstuvwxyz” into tLargeTextString

put tLargeTextString into pText


— Adding your code here Mark:
put ".*THIS.*FIND.*" into tTarget

filter pText with regex pattern tTarget into tFilteredTextResult

answer "tFilteredTextResult = " & tFilteredTextResult

yields: 

tFilteredTextResult = "abcdefghijkTHISISMYTEXTTOFINDlmnopqrstuvwxyz”

So what did it filter?  It’s the same string I started with.

Rick

> On Mar 12, 2022, at 3:43 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> or
>    put ".*THIS.*FIND.*" into tTarget
>    filter pText with regex pattern tTarget into tFilteredTextResult