Accepting string input with quotes in Manipulate
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- Subject: [mg111211] Accepting string input with quotes in Manipulate
- From: Todd R Johnson <Todd.R.Johnson at uth.tmc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:15:00 -0400 (EDT)
I am writing a simple application where I'd like the user to be able to inp=
ut a regular expression that will be used to filter data. I'd like the Inpu=
tField to accept the string without requiring double quotes. The following =
code works, but requires the quotes:
Manipulate[
StringMatchQ[
"take the money and run", ___ ~~ RegularExpression[ s] ~~ ___], {{s,
"take|run" , "regex"}, ControlType -> InputField[, String]}]
The following using ToString doesn't work because the input is treated as a=
n expression and then converted to a string containing spaces before and af=
ter the |, so typing run|take in the input field results in the string "run=
| take".
Manipulate[
StringMatchQ[
"take the money and run", ___ ~~
RegularExpression[ ToString[s]] ~~ ___], {{s, , "regex"},
ControlType -> InputField[, String]}]
Is there any way to tell Manipulate to accept the exact string that the use=
r types?
Todd R. Johnson, Phd
Associate Professor
The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston
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Houston, TX 77030
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