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simonaferrara
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4 years ago
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Search for a substring using wildcards

Hi,

 

I would like to search a substring within a string that contains some values that change at runtime.

My string is, for example:

"Result Id: n=3;i=916169501"

I'm not interested to check the n and i values, but only the string format.

 

I've tried these (to simplify the example, I've directly set an input string for the comparison), by using the aqString.Find method.

 

function test()
{
//  OK --> it returns 7, so the substring is found
aqString.Find("Result: Id: n=3;i=916169501","Id: ns=3;i=916169501");


//  KO --> it returns -1, so the substring is not found
aqString.Find("Result: Id: n=3;i=916169501","Id: ns=*;i=*");

 

//  KO --> it returns -1, so the substring is not found
aqString.Find("Result: Id: n=3;i=916169501","Id: ns=?;i=*");
}

 

Probably the aqString.Find method doesn't handle wildcards, can you help me how can I reach my result?

 

Thanks

Simona