wildcards in strings

[TonyVBnet]

hi.
now my program is able to search. my last thread
but there's now another problem:
do you know if i can use wildcards for this search? i've tried, but it actually doesn't work. do you have tipps how to use them inside a word? e.g. i'm searching for a word that begins with "b" and ends with "ing" like "beginning".
thx

 

[hneal98]

you might be able to use instr. Not sure how you would use a wild card.

 

[stnkyminky]

take a look into regular expressions.

Scott
Programmer Analyst
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[TonyVBnet]

thx for your help.
i've taken a look at the regular expressions classes. so i found a code, that helps to search for the "href"-tag. thats not exactly what i need, but it helps. unfortunately i don't understand the "searchword". here it is:
searchWord = "href\s*=\s*(?:""(?<1>[^""]*)""|(?<1>\S+))"
what i understand: "\s*" illustrate spaces (similar to that S stands for all non-space characters), the * is a kind of wildcard (zero or more characters). just like the ? which stands for zero or one character. but what means the rest of the line?
would be great if anybody had an idea.
thx

 

[TonyVBnet]

i've really forgotten the main question!
how could i add the "http" in this "searchword"? i want to find all urls, but with href it doesn't work properly, because there are not only http and mailtos (which i only want!). and do you know if (and how) i can use ' instead of "? e.g. in js-files you can find urls in apostrophs.
thx

 

[chiph]

It looks like you can replace the first question mark with your protocol:
[tt]?[/tt] Becomes: [tt](http|mailto)[/tt]

Chip H.

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[TonyVBnet]

hi.
thx for your tip, but this also doesn't work. i've tried it out.
perhaps i'll find the right way (but it doesn't seem so!

 

[T0AD]

Can you try using the Like keyword, ie.

If sMyWord Like "b[*]ing" Then bFound = True

Not sure if my syntax is 100% correct - cant check it at the moment, but it's something similar to the above.

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[TonyVBnet]

thx for your help!
i've found a solution:
searchWord = "(""(http:[^""]*)"")"
so you can find all http-links. works really fine (syntax in regular expressions is sometimes so confusing!)