Filter with wildcards

[Richmond Mathewson]

Oddly enough a matchChunk expression with "with you$" pulls out all the 
'with you' stuff and excludes this sort of thing: 'with youthful 
naivety' . . . which is marvellous

But a matchChunk expression with "with u$" catches nothing!

On 30.10.23 20:11, Craig Newman via use-livecode wrote:
> 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 “
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>> Hope someone can help me stop pulling my baffled face
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> David Glasgow
>>
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