I have a subroutine that I pass a string value from a skip list. That value is compared to objects in a Doors File. But the comparison does not work.

string SW_VRC="Object Text"

Module currMod = current Module

Skip split (string s, string delim)

{

Skip skp = create

int i = 0

Regexp split = regexp "^(.*?)" delim "(.*)$"

while (split s)

{

string temp_s = s[match 2]

put(skp, i++, s[match1] "")

s = temp_s

}

put(skp, i++, s "")

return skp

}

string getInfo( string inStr)

{

int offsetFromFind, lengthFromFind

string resultString = ""

Object currObj

for currObj in currMod do

{

if ( findPlainText( ( currObj.SW_VRC ""), inStr, offsetFromFind, lengthFromFind, false ) )

{

print currObj.SW_VRC " matches " inStr "\n";

resultString = resultString "\n" currObj."SW_VRC ""

}

}

return resultString

}

string modname = "a,b,cc,ccc,d,e,f"

Skip newLst = split (modname,",")

string inputInfo;

find(newLst, 0, inputInfo)

getInfo(inputInfo)

Now this is a simplified version of what I am doing. But the findPlainText does not match anything. inputInfo is getting the correct string, I checked. The part that really kills me is if I hardcode in the parameter

i.e. inStr = "21";

It works like it's supposed to. Now I was assuming a string is a string. Is there a difference between a string from a skip list and a string that's quoted? Is there a hidden character? What am I missing? Any insight you could provide would be welcome.

Thanks,

DevM

No there is no difference. Had to fix a couple errors but the following code worked as I expected. It matched every object with the object text containing the word in the first position of the script.

David,

   Thank you so much  for trying to help. I did figure out my problem though. It seems that when I put my input data on the command line I formatted it like this:

"/MTA/CC/PWRSS, 21, 22"

Now the script did a great job of parsing the commas (,) but it seems that for findPlainTest Twenty-one ("21")  and space Twenty-one (" 21"​) are two very different animals. I wrote a subroutine to remove leading and trailing spaces and it fixed the problem.

Thank You for your help,

  DevM