Plugin: Filterplus

[RogerB]

I’ve written a small plugin to overcome my frustrations from using the @FILTER function in TCC. It’s possible no one else finds it frustrating (or possibly no one else uses @FILTER!), but I thought I’d offer it for download in case it’s helpful to other users.

For those not familiar with it, @FILTER extracts the requested characters from the supplied string. For example, to extract just the digits from a string you use it like this:

d:\>echo %@filter[0123456789,ABC123.45abc]
12345

Extracting alphabetic characters requires you to type the entire alphabet twice, once in upper case and once in lower case:

d:\>echo %@filter[ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghujklmnopqrstuvwxyz,ABC123.45abc]
ABCabc

My plugin, called FilterPlus, allows the use of shortcuts to represent some common sequences of characters. To extract just the digits as in the previous example, the shortcut “~d” is available:

d:\>echo %@filter[~d,ABC123.45abc]
12345

and for alphabetic characters ~A means a lot less typing and less chance of a typo:

d:\>echo %@filter[~A,ABC123.45abc]
ABCabc

The other shortcuts available are

~D - extracts digits and the decimal character as defined in the user locale:

d:\>echo %@filter[~D,ABC123.45abc]
123.45

~l - extracts lowercase alphabetic characters:

d:\>echo %@filter[~l,ABC123.45abc]
abc

~U - extracts uppercase alphabetic characters:

d:\>echo %@filter[~U,ABC123.45abc]
ABC

I’m afraid the plugin is only available as a 64-bit version as I have no longer have any means of testing 32-bit plugins.

If anyone would like to try the plugin it can be downloaded from this dropbox location. If you do find it a useful plugin, please reply in this thread and I’ll ask Rex to add it to those available on the JP Software website.

 

[Kachupp]

Nice plugin

pure tcc code example of how to

set U_alpha=65 66 67 68 69 70 71
set L_alpha=97 98 99 100 101 102 103

    echos %@filter[%@char[%U_alpha %L_alpha] 0123456789,ABCDEFG123.45abcde]

 

[Joe Caverly]

Hi @RogerB,
Would you please edit the title of this thread to include the name of your plugin, perhaps New Plugin: FilterPlus

That way, folks can see at a glance what plugin is being discussed in the thread.

FilterPlus will be very useful for me.

Joe

 

[RogerB]

Hi Joe - updated as you requested, but I dropped the "New" as it won't be new forever