Re: New [If] command question + New Feature Request
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texte = WebDNA Support wrote: > > >How about a new feature request: add a grep feature to all of the test > >operators? The current grep context is actually a search and replace; > >it would be nice to have a logical that we could feed a regexp, instead > >of exact string matches (~^=). How about # (octothorpe) for the > >operator? > > You can mix-and-match WebDNA anywhere, so could you use [grep] right > inside your [If] context to accomplish the same thing? As long as > your [grep] returns something useful that the [If] can compare > against, you can probably get this behavior today. > Well, yes, I suppose I could do that. What I was suggesting was that since you now had a regular expression engine, you could create a regexp operator that would return a logical, just like [field]=fish returns a logical. [if [field1]#fi[a-z][a-z]]...[/if]Just an idea...John Peacock------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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WebDNA Support wrote: > > >How about a new feature request: add a grep feature to all of the test > >operators? The current grep context is actually a search and replace; > >it would be nice to have a logical that we could feed a regexp, instead > >of exact string matches (~^=). How about # (octothorpe) for the > >operator? > > You can mix-and-match WebDNA anywhere, so could you use [grep] right > inside your [if] context to accomplish the same thing? As long as > your [grep] returns something useful that the [if] can compare > against, you can probably get this behavior today. > Well, yes, I suppose I could do that. What I was suggesting was that since you now had a regular expression engine, you could create a regexp operator that would return a logical, just like [field]=fish returns a logical. [if [field1]#fi[a-z][a-z]]...[/if]Just an idea...John Peacock------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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