Re: Is there any wildcards?

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 5:23 PM +0200 8/17/99, Henrik Andersson wrote:
>Hi!
>I wonder if there exists anything in XSL with the function of a
>"wildcard"?
>
>
>For example in the following line...
>
><xsl:value-of select="substring-before("1999 APRIL 23","APRIL")"/>
>
>Is it possible to put in something instead of "APRIL" as a second
>argument to the substring-function?
>
>
>Like in perl:
>"anything"	-	.*
>"any digit"	-	\d
>"any two digits"-	\d{2}
>etc.
>

No. XSL does not support regular expressions. This may be added in a future
release.


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