Re: Fetch Specifications and Regular Expressions

Mike Schrag <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.webobjects.devel
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On Jul 9, 2007, at 1:42 PM, Joshua Marker wrote:

> 	No, you can't use regular expressions with a fetch specification.  
> SQL has its own pattern matching Add multiple terms to the FS  
> dynamically, or use the SQL/EO pattern matching. Looks like the  
> first, based on what you're trying to do.
>
>
> On 9 Jul  2007, at 8:37, Jeff Dunnett wrote:
>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> I have been searching through my various WebObjects books, the
>> archives for this list and the web for a solution to my problem but I
>> can't find it.
>>
>> I have a fetch specification:
>>
>> ((contest.contestEvent like $contest) and (processed = $processed)
>> and (schoolNumber like $schoolNumber))
>>
>> For the value of $schoolNumber I want to pass in a regular expression
>> like ^05(69|70|71|72).  For some reason when try to fetch objects
>> (after having passed in that string) it returns no objects (even
>> though I know there are some in the test database.  I have tried a
>> few variations on the regex such as ^05(69|70|71|72)????? etc.  Can
>> anyone point out what i am doing wrong?  Can I even use regular
>> expressions with a fetch specification?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jeff
>>
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