Filter

[Alex Tweedly]

Mark Schonewille wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a long list with text. The syntax
>
> filter myLongList with "*a*|*b*"
>
> should return almost the complete list, but I don't get any data 
> returned, while
>
> filter myLongList with "*a*"
>
> and
>
> filter myLongList with "*b*"
>
> both work. What's wrong here?
>
You should be able to do    "*[ab]*"
You're using "filter" as though it tok any normal Regular Epression. It 
doesn't - only

> Wildcard expressions are similar to regular expressions. You can use 
> the following characters in a wildcard expression:
>
> *
> Matches zero or more of any character. The wildcard expression A*C 
> matches "AC", "ABC", or "ADZXC".
>
> ?
> Matches exactly one character. The wildcard expression A?C matches 
> "ABC", but not "AC" or "ADZXC".
>
> [chars]
> Matches any one of the characters inside the brackets. The wildcard 
> expression A[BC]D matches "ABD" or "ACD", but not "AD" or "ABCD".
>
> [char-char]
> Matches any character whose ASCII value is between the first character 
> and the second character.
>



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