string in regular expression/

[sonic]

Hello,

Is it possible to use a, for example findrx, and the input of a string?

i mean something like this: findrx( input "a\d{6} here the input of another sting )

if so can you help me out on how to do this?

Thanks!

[Gintaras]

Macro Macro1565

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str s1 s2
int i
s1="string1"
s2="string2"
i=findrx(s1 F"a\d{6}\Q{s2}\E")
out i
if(i<0) ret

The F makes possible to use variables in the string. In this case we use s2 enclosed in {}.
The \Q\E disables special regular expression characters in s2.

[TheVig]

In this example the {6} gets formatted as 6 in the search pattern.

I've had this problem before using the string F formatting where I need to have "{ }" as characters.

How do you escape them so they won't get formatted out or error?

Thanks,
Jim

[Gintaras]

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[TheVig]

Thanks. I honestly thought I tried that. So obvious.
jim