Select files with same name pattern as selected

[Reve_Etrange]

For some reasons, ListPane() doesn't select files when the wildcard pattern (2nd arg) contains brackets ('[' and ']'), even if backslash-escaped.

Eg.

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$base = 'ok [joe].part';
$list = ListPane('a', "$base*", 5);

while active pane contains files like "ok [joe].part1.rar", "ok [joe].part2.rar" etc.

Bug/feature?

[admin]

Feature! "[joe]" is a special pattern group syntax and means "any letter j, o, e". To pass "[joe]" literally you have to escape the first bracket like this: "[[]joe]".

[Reve_Etrange]

Ok; the 2nd argument is referred to as a "wildcard pattern" in the doc, with (*, ?) being the wildcards, so this regexp-ish bracket feature is undocumented (no big deal, just pointing it out).
Unless I messed up somewhere, the brackets can't be escaped with backslashes, so this makes it a bit awkward for file names containing brackets.

I quick-fixed the script this way:

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    $patbase = RegexReplace("$base", '([][])', '[$1]');
    $list = ListPane('a', "$patbase*", 5);

Also, the $regexEscape var should read:

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    $regexEscape = '([\[\]\\\^\$\.\|\?\*\+\(\)\{\}])';

(a closing bracket was missing).

[admin]

Next version will have a flag that does it automatically for you.

Next version: Examples for Character Lists and flag NoCharacterLists (16):

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//list all items that contain "a" or "b" in the name:
inputselect("Test", listpane(, "[ab]"));
//list all items that contain "[ab]" in the name:
inputselect("Test", listpane(, "[ab]", 16));

[Reve_Etrange]

FYI, '#' also has an undocumented special meaning, so the code should read:

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    $patbase = RegexReplace("$base", '([]#[])', '[$1]');
    $list = ListPane('a', "$patbase*", 5);