Topic: wcmatch returning wrong output

[vincent.r]

Command: (wcmatch "[XX]" "*]*")
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Command: (wcmatch "[XX]" "*]")
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Command: (wcmatch "[XX]" "*[*")
nil

Command: (wcmatch "[XX]" "[*")
nil


Why wcmatch function returning nil ?

[JohnK]

Brackets are a special character for the wcmatch function so you need to escape them with a backtick.

Command: (wcmatch "[XX]" "*`[*")
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[dexus]

This works:

Code - Auto/Visual Lisp: [Select]

1. (wcmatch "[XX]" "`[*")

As you can see here:
https://www.theswamp.org/Sources/doc/avlisp/#wcmatch

[ is a special character, but can be escaped with a quote: `

[vincent.r]

Brackets are a special character for the wcmatch function so you need to escape them with a backtick.

Command: (wcmatch "[XX]" "*`[*")
T

Thanks JohnK. Its working.

[vincent.r]

This works:

Code - Auto/Visual Lisp: [Select]

1. (wcmatch "[XX]" "`[*")

As you can see here:
https://www.theswamp.org/Sources/doc/avlisp/#wcmatch

[ is a special character, but can be escaped with a quote: `

Thanks dexus. Will look into it.

[Lee Mac]

You could also use vl-string-position or vl-string-search to find a character within a string - these do not accept wildcards and will therefore always treat the supplied arguments as literals.