Problems with Filter?

[Brian Milby]

Your source was only one line.  The default for filter is to work by line.  It returns all lines that match, hence the same string you started with.

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> On Mar 12, 2022, at 5:22 PM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
> 
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