formatlist() unable to handle square brackets in filter

[jaywalker32]

The following fails:

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text formatlist("ba|a[f]", "f", , "a[*");

Expected: a[f]


I'm encountering this when trying to filter a list of filenames which contain square brackets.

[highend]

Mh?

"[" itself is a wildcard (for a range)...

So do it correctly by enclosing it in full square brackets:

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text formatlist("ba|a[f]", "f", , "a[[]*");

E.g. the filter command description explains this:

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1: Handle open square brackets, i.e. convert "[" to "[[]" to allow matching "[". Without this conversion "[" and "]" are interpreted as group markers by the pattern parser.

Moving this to questions and answers

[jaywalker32]

Ah, ok. Thanks. It's working now.

I had only checked the formatlist() notes.