Re: st: macro problem

[Richard Goldstein <richgold@ix.netcom.com>]

you don't make it clear about what doesn't work

but here is a guess: you are getting match=1 in all cases (or at least
all where strvar is not missing); remember, however, that strpos=0 if
"S" is not found; so, in addition to the quotes, etc., I guess you want
to ensure that strpos is >0 (and maybe <.)

Rich

On 6/11/12 11:50 AM, Jeph Herrin wrote:
> This should be trivial, but for some reason I cannot get it.
> 
> I have a string variable, and I have a list of string values I need to
> match against it. There are occasional trailing or leading characters in
> the variable, so I am using -strpos- to find matches. Thus
> 
>   local matchlist "string 1" "string 2"  "string 3" .... "string 55"
> 
>   gen byte match=0
>   foreach S in `matchlist' {
>         replace match = 1 if strpos(strvar,`S')
>   }
> 
> Now, I know I have got the quotes and macro evaluations wrong, but that
> is the problem: I've tried this many different ways, and yet cannot seem
> to find a combination that works. Any thoughts?
> 
> thanks,
> Jeph
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