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Newbie Joined: 01 Dec 2011 Posts: 2

I have a string list with character names that I am trying to search and display the results. Problem is that it will return the results of my search if the letters are anywhere in the name. I am trying to get it to display results only if the names start with the letters I enter. For example the alias is named search. I type search abc. I currently get results of abcd, , abce, nabc, jabc, etc. I would like it to return abcd, abce only. I've read and tried %left but I can't seem to get it to work right. any help would be appreciated. Below is what I am using.

$search = ""
#loop 1,%numitems(@charnames) {#IF %match(%item( @charnames, %{i}),%1) {#additem $search %item(@charnames, %{i})}}
say %replace( $search, "|", ", ").

Thanks

well, I figured it out, I added ^ in front of %1

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

There are several ways of doing this. You could, for instance, change your match pattern so that it only matches at the beginning of the string. But probably the easiest is to use the %begins() function instead of %match().