<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br>Hi All,<br>Before asking this question, I did side-by-side testing and confirmation<br>of the sorting results in both the "Basic" and "Custom" examples...<br>Even compared the C++ vs Python generated code, same results...<br>I also checked this on Pete's newly posted custom example..<br><br>The observation is this...it appears that typing text into the pattern line<br>generates a behaviour that is *always* regExp behaviour...<br><br>For example,...supposed I set<br> filterColumn to "Date"<br> filterSyntax to "Wildcard"<br>and finally, in filterPattern, I type 1/* (with no quotes)<br><br>I would expect to get a view returned with with all the January<br>dates...but I get nothing...<br>If I remove the slash (/), leaving 1*, I get everything, or better said<br>I get the
behaviour of regExp,....if you switch filterSyntax to <br>"regular expression", you'll get the same results...<br><br>Another example...set<br> filterColumn to "Date"<br>Type "12:" (no quote) into filterPattern.<br>Now keep switching filterSyntax from "regExp", "Wildcard", and <br>"Fixed String", and every time you get the same output...<br><br>There are other examples I can provide too....<br>There appears to be something odd going on here...at the very least,<br>it doesn't appear to conform to Unix-like standard conventions of<br>regularExpression and/or Wildcard interpretation...<br>Is it just that the "Date" data is set up odd?<br><br>I tried a similar example on the "Sender" column, but get same<br>kind of results...<br><br>Lastly,...I set<br> filterColumn to "Subject"<br> filterPattern to "Sports" (again , no quotes)<br>sequencing thru
filterSyntax,....going from regExp, to Wildcard,<br>to Fixed String, I always get the same output...<br>At least on "Fixed String", I would expect to get 1 returned record,<br>but it's behaving like it's a regExp,...ignoring the "RE: etc" and the<br>"AW: etc" non-matching cases...<br><br>Does this strike anyone else as odd? or am I just going crazy?..lol<br>Thanks,<br><br><br></td></tr></table><br>