matching string into some format

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Is there any way to check if string suits to some format, eg: "a0 - b1", where "a" and "b" can be any letter, "0" and "1" can be any number.

I know It can be done by lots of if's but I'm sure there is simpler way to do that.

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Use the match() function.

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How could I miss it!? I thought I have seen all functions connected with string type.

Thanks a lot!

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I still have problem because there is "-" in my pattern, what is a one of special characters.

I wrote job to test and I always get "not found" info.

if(match(":a:d-:a:d","r4-b2") )

info("found!");

else

info("not found");

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It's an operator (matches for zero or one occurence); if you want to use as a value, you have to escape it (\-).

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static void Job45(Args _args)

{

if(match(":a:d\-:a:d","r4-b2"))

info("found!");

else

info("not found");

}

Still nothing.

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"\\-" worked. Thanks again, without you I would type lots of if's.

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Try also @":a:d\-:a:d".

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