SID-02257: Regex searches in UserList search box

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How can I do regex searches in the Main. UserList topic? I have looked at the UserReports code and the type of search seems to be set up as regex but I have not been able to do searches with a simple regular expression pattern like !A for example.

-- TWiki Guest - 2016-10-06

Discussion and Answer

Can you provide an example of what you're trying to do? I don't know if the search parameter within %USERREPORTS% supports regex however you can perform a search of users using a regex search like:

%SEARCH{"META:FORM.*[U]serForm;META:FIELD.*[F]irstName.*Hank" web="%USERSWEB%" type="regex" nonoise="on" format="| $topic |" excludetopic="TWiki*"}%

The search string is made up of:
META:FORM.*[U]serForm Finds all topics containing a FORM called UserForm (this should identify all topics that are users)
META:FIELD.*[F]irst Name.*Hank Finds a field called First Name that contains the word Hank on the same line. You will want to modify this to be specific to whatever you're searching for.
; The search string is separated by a semi-colon which is a TWiki specific operator as per RegularExpression

Hope this helps

-- Jani Hamalainen - 2016-10-11

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