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matching '*' and '?' as literal chars [SOLVED]

2008-10-16T22:56:10-04:00

Thanks

Statistics: Posted by TCL_no_TK — Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:56 pm

matching '*' and '?' as literal chars [SOLVED]

2008-10-15T17:06:15-04:00

When you add escape characters to * and ? it means they'll be treated as characters instead of wild cards. When you use "\\* \\?" as match pattern then it will only match "* ?" and nothing else (common sense). What you're probably looking for is something like

Code:

string match "*\\**\\?*" $string

This will match a string containing '*' followed by '?' anywhere in a string ('*' and '?' don't necessary have to follow each other). Example

% string match "*\\**\\?*" *!*@two*.many?.wild*.car?ds.fr
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Edit: If you want to count the number of '*' and '?' in a string then you should use [regexp] (it's not possible with [string match]). For example

Code:

regexp -all {\?} $string ; # returns number of '?' in stringregexp -all {\*} $string ; # returns number of '*' in string

Statistics: Posted by Sir_Fz — Wed Oct 15, 2008 5:06 pm

matching '*' and '?' as literal chars [SOLVED]

2008-10-15T15:52:10-04:00

Tryed it but got this:

[08:47:57] .tcl string match {\\*\\? *?} *!*@two*.many?.wild*.car?ds.fr
[08:47:57] Tcl: 0
[08:48:13] .tcl string match "\\*\\? *?" "*!*@two*.many?.wild*.car?ds.fr"
[08:48:13] Tcl: 0
[08:48:27] .tcl regexp -all -- "\\*\\? *?" "*!*@two*.many?.wild*.car?ds.fr"
[08:48:27] Tcl: 0
[08:48:37] .tcl regexp -all -- {(\\*\\?|*?)} "*!*@two*.many?.wild*.car?ds.fr"
[08:48:37] Tcl error: couldn't compile regular expression pattern: quantifier operand invalid
[08:48:56] .tcl string match "\\*\\? *?" "*"
[08:48:56] Tcl: 0
[08:48:58] .tcl string match "\\*\\? *?" "*?"
[08:48:58] Tcl: 0
[08:48:59] .tcl string match "\\*\\? *?" "* ?"
[08:48:59] Tcl: 0
[08:49:02] .tcl string match "\\*\\? *?" "?"
[08:49:02] Tcl: 0
[08:49:18] .tcl regexp -all -- {(\\*|\\?)} "*!*@two*.many?.wild*.car?ds.fr"
[08:49:18] Tcl: 30
[08:49:27] .tcl regexp -all -- {(\\*|\\?)} "*!*@*.fr"
[08:49:27] Tcl: 8

Played around a bit and tryed MC_8's filter from more tools, which dose the same thing you gave me. However, its not returning the number of matches

[09:55:04] .tcl set wd_fil1 [filter -regexp "?"]
[09:55:04] Tcl: \?
[09:55:08] .tcl set wd_fil2 [filter -regexp "*"]
[09:55:08] Tcl: \*
[09:55:26] .tcl regexp -all -- {[$wd_fil2]} "*!*@*.fr"
[09:55:26] Tcl: 1
[09:56:39] .tcl regexp -all -- {([$wd_fil1]|[$wd_fil2])} "*!*@*.fr ?"
[09:56:39] Tcl: 1
[09:56:41] .tcl regexp -all -- {([$wd_fil1]|[$wd_fil2])} "*!*@*.fr ? *"
[09:56:41] Tcl: 1

Statistics: Posted by TCL_no_TK — Wed Oct 15, 2008 3:52 pm

matching '*' and '?' as literal chars [SOLVED]

2008-10-15T05:04:55-04:00

Code:

string match \\*\\? *?

Statistics: Posted by user — Wed Oct 15, 2008 5:04 am

matching '*' and '?' as literal chars [SOLVED]

2008-10-16T22:56:26-04:00

I've tryed using string match, but it seems to allow 'anything' as '*' (as expected). Anyone know of a way to do this, please?

Statistics: Posted by TCL_no_TK — Tue Oct 14, 2008 11:28 pm