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Altocumulus
AltocumulusTest for characters in a string
I want to test whether any of a set of characters exists within a string. I used the code below, but wonder if anyone can suggest a more efficient (and more elegant) method: string match "*\[XYZ...
hoolio
Cirrostratus
CirrostratusI think scan would be faster and work assuming you can use a character class to define what you want to match.
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[chars]
The input substring consists of one or more characters in chars. The matching string is stored in the variable. If the first character between the brackets is a ] then it is treated as part of chars rather than the closing bracket for the set. If chars contains a sequence of the form a-b then any character between a and b (inclusive) will match. If the first or last character between the brackets is a -, then it is treated as part of chars rather than indicating a range.
Aaron
