Question

Hi,

Suppose I have a topic called MonthlyReport2004Dec.

What sort of regex / search trick can I do on the %INCLUDINGTOPIC% variable, just to extract the "2004Dec" part?

[As you can guess, these reports will have a standard naming format: MonthlyReportYYYYMON]

thanks for your time,

-mick.

Environment

-- TWikiGuest - 24 Dec 2004

Mick, could I ask you a favor? At TWiki.org we prefer real user names. This gives our community a personal touch and, unlike slashdot, results in a high signal to noise ratio. Could you please register using your real name, also for the WikiName. Or, if you prefer, login as a TWikiGuest.

-- PeterThoeny - 24 Dec 2004

Answer

Could you specify if this is for a SEARCH or for simple display purposes? You can use some SpreadSheetPlugin magic to remove MonthlyReport from MonthlyReport2004Dec.

-- PeterThoeny - 24 Dec 2004

Hello,

I have a similar question. I have non WikiWord topipcs (eg. this-is-atopic). I would like to search for all -*- topics and only display what is before the first dash...I don't have access for any additional plugins.

-- ColinNickerson - 29 Mar 2005

Well, I found a workaround for this... I couldn't determing how to apply a regular expression to a topic, so what I did was place a % TOPIC % variable in all my documents and apply a regular expression to the topic contents. It's a little messy but it does the trick.

-- ColinNickerson - 01 Apr 2005