Wildcard search within strings?

[Ed]

Can I pull text into a string and search for a substring using wildcards?
Or can this only be done by setting a range in the document and searching
for text in the doc? I've got a situation that requires creating a new
document and writing text into it to perform a wildcard search. This would
be so much easier if I could hold all my text to be searched in a string and
perform a wildcard search totally within the string without ever touching a
document.

Ed

 

[Ed]

No.

Yes.

~sigh~ Thought so.

However, that's what programming is for.
Create your own wildcard search for strings.
Or let's do it together with all the friends here.

At my level of non-expertise, I don't know that I'd be much help. I'd sure
enjoy watching, though, and asking a zillion questions! <g>

Ed

 

[John Nurick]

Hi Ed,

One way is to use the VBScript regular expression engine (which is much
more powerful and less buggy than Word's). I've posted a easy-to-use
functions that make use of it at
http://www.j.nurick.dial.pipex.com/Code/index.htm , along with links to
more information.

 

[Ed]

Whoa! I played with rgxExtract() and I feel like a kid with a learner's
permit and a brand new Ferrari! This thing ~rocks~!!

Just to be sure, I could call this from a macro by setting up
Target = string to search
Pattern = string or pattern to find
Which = occasion of match to return
and using
rgxExtract(Target, Pattern, Which)
is this correct?

Ed