Request: extract item name into popupmenu

[yusef88]

I need to extract the item base name to choose one word and set a filter

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 regexmatches("<curbase>,", "\w");
 popupmenu("<curbase>|-|New|Text|Document");  //- is a menu separator
 filter "<curbase>", 8;

[bdeshi]

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  $filter = popupmenu("<curbase>|-|" . regexmatches(<curbase>, "\w*"));
  filter $filter, 8;

Want to include the extension? use <curname> inside the regexmatches().

[yusef88]

Thanks
Off-topic question: does regular expressions support non-latin characters?

[highend]

Sure

[yusef88]

so why the script doesn't work with Arabic characters

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popupmenu("<curbase>|-|" . regexmatches(<curbase>, "\w*"));

[highend]

Because unicode characters are supported but have their own escape sequences (for each and every char).
They are not present in "\w" (which only matches ascii chars)^^

You could just split the word and it's language agnostic afterwards...

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    $stripped = regexreplace(<curbase>, "(,|;|-|\.|\[|\]|\(|\)|\{|\})+", " ");
    $words = "";
    foreach($entry, $stripped, " ", "e") { $words = $words . $entry . "|"; }
    $filter = popupmenu("<curbase>|-|" . $words);
    filter $filter, 8;

[yusef88]

highend many thanks to you.. a little modification to ignore underscore would be appreciated

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 regexmatches(<curbase>, "[^_\W]+"))

[highend]

Then add it to the $stripped = ... line?

[yusef88]