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Posted: **Tue Feb 08, 2011 12:08 am**

Hi,

I am new and would like to know how can I find in the field using a wild cards, such as * or ?. (In other program, * is equivalent to any characters or number in any numbers and ? is equivalent to any char or number for 1 character.)

For example, I would like to find string in field Filenames ending with -en.doc or docx under any subfolder name. My command is shown below but I believe, it is not correct.

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find string "/*/*-en.doc?" in field "Filenames"

What would be the right command?

Thank you.

Posted: **Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:00 am**

Hi adeam,
You can use the filter command
Something like that

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on getStringEnding
   put fld "filenames" into tCont
   put ".doc,.docx" into theEnding
   repeat for each item MyEnding in theEnding
      put tCont into tCont2
      put "*"&MyEnding into MyFilter
      filter tCont2 with MyFilter
      put tCont2&return  after tFound
   end repeat
   put tFound 
end getStringEnding

Best
Jean-Marc

Posted: **Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:09 pm**

Thanks Jean-Marc. I was away for quite sometime and almost forgot what I post. But now, I'm back.

Thanks again.

Posted: **Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:09 pm**

Hi Adeam,

Congratulation you can live without Livecode

Jean-Marc

Posted: **Thu Feb 17, 2011 6:48 pm**

A more powerful command is the matchChunk, giving you almost full regexp.

Posted: **Wed Mar 28, 2012 5:12 am**

Thanks BvG, matchChunk is really nice.

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