Question

I would like to search with wildcards for multiple categories in the body text. Maybe there are no wildcards needed... In the first search I wanna find only "Categroy1" and in the second "Category2".

This is how the categories are set in a topic and there are, as in this example, in a table:

It's hard to get the right $pattern( ... ) syntax.

Maybe someone can help me out.

Here another issue... I got a topic with following information included in a table, this topic is also assigned to a TWikiForm (Field=TopicClassification, Value=Category1):

On a diffrent site I want to extract the above mentioned information:

How has the $pattern variable has to look like where the "?" are?

I'm very thankfull for help!

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-- ThomasEsau - 20 Nov 2006

Answer

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Here is the regex to find just Category2:

Categories: \s*\|.*Category2

On extracting selected content, you need a $pattern() in the format. Untested example to extract Name:

format="| [[$topic]] | $pattern(^\| \s*Name \s*\| \s*([^\|]*).*) | etc. |"

See details in VarSEARCH, FormattedSearch and SearchPatternCookbook.

-- PeterThoeny - 20 Nov 2006