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Edited October 21, 2008 by Mattraks

[martin]

Is there such thing as something that can compare strings but with like say a * as a wildcard? Like "abc" would compare with "ab*" and "a*bc" would compare but like "abd" or "ad*" wouldn't. So can you tell me if something does that? Thanks.

Look up StringRegExp in the help.

[martin]

Can you just tell me how to check if "*!*@text" matches "Mattraks!~ident@text"? I don't understand how StringRegExp works too well

StringRegExp("Mattraks!~ident@text",".{1,}!.{1,}@text",1)
;means try matching with
;1 or more character ".{1,}"
;followed by "!"
;follwed by 1 or more characters ".{1,}"
;followed by "@text"
switch @error;@error set by StringRegExp tells you what happened
    case 0
        ConsoleWrite("matches" & @CRLF)
    case 1
        ConsoleWrite("no match" & @CRLF)
    case 2
        ConsoleWrite("Invalid pattern" & @CRLF)
EndSwitch