regexp question

[droolin]

Could someone provide me with an example of regexp using the regular expresion stored in a variable? I have alot of documentation on regular expresions, but I can't seem to find anything with the expresion you are trying to match against being contained in a variable.
Example of what Im trying to do:

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set FindThis "[A-Z][a-z]+_[0-9][0-9]"
regexp $FindThis $text

Im testing my regular expresions in tclsh. They work when I hard code them, but never work when I store them in a variable.
Any help would be greatly appriceated.

droolin

[GodOfSuicide]

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set FindThis {[A-Z][a-z]+_[0-9][0-9]}
regexp $FindThis $text 

[droolin]

ok, when I first testing. I was using a regular expresion that required escape charachters. and thats where I really had the problem.
Exanoke

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{\(Killed \Dabigun}

so, if I do the set like you showed. That will take the escape characters also?
And thank you very much, I would never have thought to set that variable that way.


droolin

[GodOfSuicide]

if you work with { } you dont have to bother escape chars
(e.g : set x "he said \"blub\"" = set x {he said "blub"}