Escaping the Filter command's wildcards

[Peter Haworth]

Well it sounds like it will support full rgexp in the near future courtesy
of Jan Schenkel and OSS.

Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>


On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto <
revolution at jaedworks.com> wrote:

> At 6:30 PM -0700 5/22/2013, Peter Haworth wrote:
>
>> I do find it strange that filter doesn't support full regexp syntax, seems
>> like RunRev would have had to write special code instead of using standard
>> regexp libraries which they use in other commands
>>
>
> It was never supposed to be a regex command at all. The wildcard syntax is
> different (it's what's used in Unix shells - that's where it came from).
> --
> jeanne a. e. devoto
> livecode at jaedworks.com
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