Wcmatch wtih wildcards

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 16:21:08 GMT

Hello all,

Thank you for considering to answer my question here.

So i have many variations of "structure IDs" this one in particular is "stk 55[3C] P1"

I have the structure of a program to go search all cogo point description and find my structure number ("stk 55[3C] P1")

However, I am having issues on the matching part.

The names varry and could have [] or - or _ so i tried using LeeMacs Code but cant get it to work.

I have attached the code i have been working on as well- its a little messy as i am still working on it

http://www.lee-mac.com/escapewildcards.html - here is the like to lee macs code i waas trying to use

;; Escape Wildcards - Lee Mac ;; Escapes wildcard special characters in a supplied string (defun LM:escapewildcards ( str ) (if (wcmatch str "*[-#@.*?~`[`,]*,*`]*") (if (wcmatch str "[-#@.*?~`[`,]*,`]*") (strcat "`" (substr str 1 1) (LM:escapewildcards (substr str 2))) (strcat (substr str 1 1) (LM:escapewildcards (substr str 2))) ) str ) ) (LM:escapewildcards "stk 55[3C] P1" ) (WCMATCH "stk 55[3C] P1"(LM:escapewildcards "55[3C]"))

Escentally would this not work for matching up with any string to any pattern?

what am i doing wrong and what could be the solution?

Re: Wcmatch wtih wildcards

hak_vz — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 17:26:59 GMT

Try this

(wcmatch "stk 55[3C] P1" (strcat "*" (LM:escapewildcards "55[3C]") "*"))

Also use STRCASE function to change letter case since WCMATCH comparison is case-sensitive, so uppercase and lowercase characters must match.

Re: Wcmatch wtih wildcards

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 18:28:38 GMT

Thats amazing, it works exactly how I anticipated!

Thank you so much for your help!

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