Thanks, Dick! I’ll play with that and see how I get on. The filter is in a loop which mostly uses simple strings, so presumably I would need to separate any regex filters into a separate loop using 'with regex'.
I have also learned that this is called “alternation”. Didn’t know that, so now I can investigate further! thanks again David G > On 6 Mar 2022, at 11:12 pm, Dick Kriesel via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > >> On Mar 3, 2022, at 2:30 AM, David V Glasgow via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> I can filter text using a single term plus a numerical range s eg: >> *re 1[0-5]* >> matching a text stem “re “ followed by any one of 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 or 15 >> >> But is there a form where the alternatives are also text? eg something like: >> >> *big [“dog”, “cat”, “fish”]* > > Hi, David. > > regex supports alternation, so if you put "big dog|big fish" into tTarget > then you can > <code> > filter pText with regex tTarget > </code> > > Does that work for you? > > — Dick > _______________________________________________ > 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
