Oh, also, there is a regex builder plugin thingy that is pretty useful, and should be installed in the ide by default.
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnm...@gmail.com> wrote: > the * matches any number of chars matching the preceeding char. > so *varchar*will try to match varcharrrrrrr > To do what you want, use the period which stand for any char. > > So.. ".*varchar.*default.*" might be closer to what you want. Can be some > weird results depending on whats in the string that is being regexed, but > should get you a start. > > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Bob Sneidar <b...@twft.com> wrote: > >> Hi all. >> >> I read over the regex specifications, and I am more confused than ever. I >> want to find, say any text and "varchar" and any text and "default" and any >> text. I would think that: >> >> matchText("varchar(255) default `Yes`", "*varchar*default*") would return >> true, but no. I get: >> >> Message execution error: >> Error description: matchChunk: error in pattern expression >> Hint: bad escape sequence >> >> However: >> >> put matchText("varchar(255) default `Yes`", "varchar") >> >> returns true. >> >> How do I use wild cards?? I really thought I understood at least the >> basics of regex, but I see I do not. >> >> Bob >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode