Filter with wildcards

Craig Newman craig at starfirelighting.com
Mon Oct 30 14:11:35 EDT 2023


Have not played with a method of keeping it all in one line. But can you filter twice, storing the first result and then running it again?

Craig

> On Oct 30, 2023, at 1:17 PM, David Glasgow via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I am doing the above and struggling with an oddity that I can’t find guidance on on Livecode or wider wildcard stuff
> 
> A simple example is I am searching text messages for 'with you' or 'with u’
> 
> so I use the wildcard form
> 
> *with [you,u]*
> 
> That finds all examples of both just fine.  However, it also finds ‘with unlimited cheese’ and 'with us’, ‘with yours’ etc.  so I want a space after both u
> 
> When I put two spaces inside the square brackets after each string, the search still works but spaces seem to be ignored (so still finds the above resamples I don’t want).
> 
> If I put a single space after the brackets the first bracketed string is ignored and the filter only finds “with u “
> 
> Hope someone can help me stop pulling my baffled face
> 
> Cheers
> 
> David Glasgow
> 
> 
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