Metacharacters & pattern matching

Fri Apr 4 07:36:07 CDT 2008

Hi Nick: Your dictionary should say ASCII8 for the character set. You  are probably using DEC Supplemental as your character set. I would check numeric code for  £. The WIN 1252 € is not in DEC Supplemental.You could try TERM=VT220-ANY QUIZ  Define x integer size 2 = 0 report sum xset sub name xsub keepgodefine a character size 1 = "£"define i integer size 2 = 0define b character size 1 = characters (i) rep sum a bset sub name xsub append keepgoaccess *xsubrep xgo Check to see if £ is in the list of DEC control characters. I would check with customer support.I believe I logged a bug about this but it has beenso long I can't remember the exact details.There may be something at the OS level to turnthis off. Good luck,Peter Bateman________________________________> Subject: RE: Metacharacters & pattern matching> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:21:12 +0000> From: Nick.Butland at acco.com> To: powerh-l at lists.sowder.com> CC: Ken at Langendock.com> > > Sorry, yes, I have done that. From our dictionary:> > > >  06  Special Name Char    "-_'%#$"           Decimal Char.        "."> >  07  Generic Retrieval    "@"                Multiline Heading    "^"> >  08  Picture Substitution "^"                Message Substitution "^"> > > > > >     Metacharacters> >  01 Escape           "!"                        06 Match Repeating  ">"        11 Match Digit    "#"> >  02 Logical Or       "|"          07 Match Optional   "<"         12 Match Anything "@"> >  03 Optional Repeat  "*"      08 Match Not        "\"            13 Match Null     "0"> >  04 Left Paren.      "("           09 Match Any        "?"             14 Reserved       "[]=;&"> >  05 Right Paren.     ")"          10 Match Alpha      "^"           15 Match Kanji    ":"> > > > > > Nick Butland> IT Project Leader, Acco UK> > Tel 01296-732150> Fax 01296-732151> Email: nick.butland at acco.com> > > > ________________________________> > From: Ken Langendock [mailto:Ken at Langendock.com]> Sent: 25 March 2008 14:35> To: powerh-l at lists.sowder.com> Subject: RE: Metacharacters & pattern matching> > > > Have you checked the PDL for your dictionary and made sure that symbol is not used as a “Reserved” or any other option in the “System Options” declaration of the PDL?> > > > This might cause some weird issues.> > > > Ken> > > > > > From: powerh-l-bounces+ken.langendock=rogers.com at lists.sowder.com [mailto:powerh-l-bounces+ken.langendock=rogers.com at lists.sowder.com] On Behalf Of Butland, Nick> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 10:21 AM> To: powerh-l at lists.sowder.com> Subject: Metacharacters & pattern matching> > > > Let’s see if anyone else can crack this, because I am fed up seeing the message “Invalid pattern specification.  Check pattern syntax.”> > > > Operating system is VMS v7.2-2,> > PowerHouse version 7.10.E6 (as it has been for rather a long time…).> > > > I have an element which has an existing pattern of “(\!|)*”. This allows any number of any alphanumeric character with the exclusion of the “post” character, as we use this as a delimiter for some data imports into Excel.> > > > Last week we had an interface fail as the result of the inclusion of a £ character in the data. I have tried to amend the pattern to something along the lines of “(\((!|)|£))*”, but this gives the error message above. The current try has "(\£|(!|))*", but any input into this triggers the message “There is a control character in this pattern.”> > > > Any suggestions? So far as I am aware, all the entries on the metacharacter screen are defaults.> > > > Thanks,> > Nick Butland> IT Project Leader, Acco UK> > Tel 01296-732150> Fax 01296-732151> Email: nick.butland at acco.com> > > > ________________________________> > DISCLAIMER> *****************> This email and any attachments thereto, may contain information which is confidential and/or protected by intellectual property rights and are intended for the sole use of the recipient(s) named above. 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