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dylanf
over 10 years ago
I wanted to point out either an issue with the Appian documentation or the like() function itself. Per the documentation:
Examples
Copy and paste an example into the Test Rules interface to see how this works.
like("brian","\\*ian") returns true
However, this does not return true.
like("brian","*ian") (without the "\\" in the multicharacter wildcard)
does return true. Please advise....
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dylanf
over 10 years ago
btw, we're on Appian 7.2
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Mark Talbot
Appian Employee
over 10 years ago
Hi Dylan, that’s correct. You need the escape with the astrix (\\*) to match one or more characters. Try like(“*ian”, *ian”). That will return true since stringA matches the pattern defined in stringB. However, like("brian", "*ian") returns false since stringA "brian" does not contain an asterisk.
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dylanf
over 10 years ago
Mark, that is not the behavior I'm seeing. like("brian", "\\*ian") returns false, but like("brian", "*ian") returns true.
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Mark Talbot
Appian Employee
over 10 years ago
Hi Dylan, I've confirmed that behavior on 7.2. Thanks for pointing this out and I'll follow with support on this.
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meghan.mahar
Appian Employee
over 10 years ago
I've updated the documentation based on your findings. Thank you, Dylan!
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