Help: Searching part of string in list

rexMatchList(partName fullNames)

If that hadn't have been available, you could have done:

rexCompile(pattern)
setof(fullName fullNames rexExecute(fullName))

But rexMatchList does this for you.

Andrew.

 Hey Andrew,
Thanks for the quick help it works. :)

 Hey Andrew, rexMatchList is working fine for list but rexMatchp is not working properly for some cases. Example:

I have a layout that has two gates g1 and g2 , and I am writing code to add a new property called "fix" to the instTerms

so code goes like

 procedure(CCFaddInstPinLabels(@optional (cellView geGetEditCellView()))
let( (transform pinCenter)
  foreach( inst cellView~>instances
    transform=inst~>transform

    foreach( instTerm inst~>instTerms
     case(instTerm~>name

      (rexMatchp("g" instTerm~>name)

        dbSetq(instTerm "G" fix)

       )

       ); case

  ); foreach instance terminal
  ); foreach instance
);let
); procedure CCFaddInstPinLabels

but it's not setting up the propert,  the problem is with matching , if I write (rexMatchp("s" instTerm~>name) then its workin fine, because there is only one source and "s" matches with the instTerm~>name.

Can you please tell me is this method ok ?

    case(instTerm~>name

      (rexMatchp("g" instTerm~>name)

        dbSetq(instTerm "G" fix)

       )

       ); case

Case is the wrong function to use, try cond. Case evaluates its first argument and then checks for the block designated by the matched string/integer.

Cond executes each condition (like an if/then/elif/else in other languages) and executes the block for the first condition that returns true.

   cond(

      (rexMatchp("g" instTerm~>name)

;; Fix the g terminals

        dbSetq(instTerm "G" fix)

       )

      (rexMatchp("s" instTerm~>name)

;; fix the s terminals

        dbSetq(instTerm "S" fix)

       )

       ); cond

And you might want to better qualify your search, what begins with "g" is "^g"

Ted

 Hey ted, Thanks for the reply and valuable information :)