MATCHWILD !"§$%&/

[Hurricane]

Hi!

anyone out there who can explain the matchw (matchwild) logic to me? For me it seems illogical!

RTFM says:

Software Customisation Manual 2.5.62: String Object

MatchWild(STRING two)

BOOLEAN

TRUE if strings are the same.
STRING two may contain
wildcard characters:
·* for any number of
characters
·? for any single character.

If i try to do use this in a Macro:

<code>
!a = 'YOUR NAME'

q var !a.matchw('*OUR*')

</code>

At least I expect due to the description a "TRUE".

But it tells me:

(2,779) Method <STRING>.MATCHW(<STRING>) not found

Obviously I am doing something wrong... Help!

[me_hungry]

You should write whole name of method:

!a = 'YOUR NAME'
q var !a.matchwild('*OUR*') 

<BOOLEAN> TRUE

[Peter200368]

MATCHW is only PML1 and not a method for the STRING Object

[Hurricane]

Thanks, me_hungry, typo error as usal.

[JKL]

Wasn't this supposed to be the German User Forum according to "AVEVAworldforum"?? (Just joking!!)