Filter with wildcards

[Richmond Mathewson]

OK: well I had a bash with a set like this:

with unlimited cheese

with you

with u

with udders clagged with glaur

with youthful naivety

and your filter grabbed all of them. :(

I tried this:

with"with [you, u,]*"

and got the same.

On reading in the dictionary I found this:

filtertVar with"[az]*"-- tVar contains all property names beginning with 
a or z

and the problematic phrase is 'beginning with'.

On 30.10.23 19:17, David Glasgow via use-livecode 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
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> use-livecode mailing list
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:
> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode