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How would I implement a search of a Text Object using a 'mask'?

I want to embed the following markers in the text, and then find them at runtime. Assume that I will have many of these throughout the Pub.

*SB81032*
*SBK2003*
*SBT4550*

Run through a Loop.
var myArray[i] = Textobj23.FindText( "*SB?????*", nextIdx )

*SB and the ending * are the consistent characters. While the ?'s represent wildcards. (I don't need those to be ?-marks). How to do this efficiently?

TIA.
Larry

Morning Lar,

Ideally, this would be a case for regexp() but OpusScript doesn't yet support that function so unless you're pulling the text from a database, you'll need to write a custom function.

Because your matching is simple, try using an incrementing check with charAt()

if (o.charAt(i) == '*' && o.charAt(i+1) == 'S' && o.charAt(i+2) == 'B' & charAt(i+8) == '*)
{
fnc_extract_match(i)
} else
{
i++
}

Mack

Thanks Mack. That gets me going in a plausible direction. However I wanted to be more lazy than that this week. And maybe a trip back to the drawing board to find some ways I can simplify before I start.

I am pulling sections of text from a DB, but text will be read-in and then decrypted when in Opus.

Thx.
Larry