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Mohanpugaz
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Hi Guys ,
I have a quick question on string pattern matching and string replacement.

Basically I wanted to replace the name inside the ** pattern and match it with @path string. 

if(match(("*%s*",name),s@path)

But It cant identify the **s and compares only with raw string “name”, can anyone please let me know how to do this.


below is my full code

s[]@groupNames = {"trunk","leaves","branch"};

foreach (string name; @groupNames)
{
    if(match(("*%s*",name),s@path)==1){
        setprimgroup(0,name,@primnum,1,"set");
    }
}

Thanks in advance.
Edited by Mohanpugaz - Dec. 15, 2017 03:30:40
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Vex won't implicitly do printf style formatting, you'll need to use sprintf to do that:

s[]@groupNames = {"trunk","leaves","branch"};

foreach (string name; @groupNames)
{
    if(match(sprintf("*%s*",name),s@path)==1){
        setprimgroup(0,name,@primnum,1,"set");
    }
}
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Hello Matt,
Thank you so much!That makes sense! And I learned a lot from your website its amazing source.
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