Matchtext - looking for chars in each line of a list of word

SethMould · Post by **SethMould** » Thu Oct 22, 2015 4:45 pm

repeat for each line temp in tAnswers
put 0 into nCount
if matchtext(temp,"*" & char 1 of tGuess & "*") then
add 1 to nCount
end if

I get an Error in the third statement

FourthWorld · Post by **FourthWorld** » Thu Oct 22, 2015 7:04 pm

SethMould wrote:I get an Error in the third statement

What does the error say?

dunbarx · Post by **dunbarx** » Thu Oct 22, 2015 7:56 pm

The problem is runtime, and in the matchText line.

Does this make sense:

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if matchtext(temp, char 1 of tGuess & "*") then

Craig Newman

elanorb · Post by **elanorb** » Thu Oct 29, 2015 5:17 pm

Hi Seth

I think you need to specify what the * is allowed to match, so something like

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put matchtext(temp,"[a-zA-Z]*" & char 1 of tGuess & "[a-zA-Z]*")

This resource, which Charles Buchwald pointed to in the Dictionary comments, is really useful

http://www.regextester.com/index.html

I hope that helps.

Kind regards

Elanor

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