Search with wildcards?

[doctorjellybean]

This thread got me thinking

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1426505&page=10

I need to search in a text file for all instances of text which contains [104673]. The numbers itself are different on each line, and the amount of numbers too, e.g.

[7712]
[66436]
[104673]
[00:01.00]

So basically I need to do a wildcard search for all instances of [*] and replace it with an empty string (the [] brackets included).

Would this FastStrings.pas unit do it, or is there another way. I'm not even sure if FastStrings.pas would work in D2007.

Thank you.

 

[Duoas]

Fast strings is just to manipulate strings the usual way, but written in x386 assembly for speed.

I think you should check out

http://RegExpStudio.com

for this problem. It is a subset implementation of the PCRE (Perl Regular Expression) library. It works very well and is free.

You can then use one of the Replace methods to find and replace occurrences of '(?-g)\[.*\]' (matches all the lines you supplied) or '(?-g)\[[0-9]*\]' (doesn't match the last line you supplied as it has non-numeric digits in it) with '\[\]'.

Hope this helps.