filter

Keith Clarke keith.clarke at me.com
Thu Nov 19 10:38:32 EST 2020


Hi Klaus,
Maybe iterate the lines - untested...

repeat for each line l in fld 1
  if and( offset( “[“, l) > 0 , offset(“]”, l) > 0 ) then put line l of fld 1 into tList
end repeat 

put tList

Best,
Keith 

> On 19 Nov 2020, at 15:19, Klaus major-k via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am surely missing something here with filter.
> 
> I have a field with some lines like:
> ...
> [500]
> text yadda
> yadda
> [100]
> ...
> And want to filter the field that only the lines with [...] remain in the field.
> 
> So I thought
> ...
> filter fld 1 with "[*" 
> ...
> would do the job, but that EMPTIES the field!?
> Obviously this [ interferes with some REGEX mechanism of filter?
> So what should I use now?
> 
> Any hints very appreciated!
> 
> 
> Best
> 
> Klaus
> --
> Klaus Major
> https://www.major-k.de
> klaus at major-k.de
> 
> 
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