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Posted: **Thu Jun 09, 2005 4:46 pm**

I was wondering if it is possible to use a variable for a pattern in a regex. My code looks something like the following.

(set 'var1 (pop some-stack))

(if (find var1 var2 0)
     ;continue execution here
)

Obviously this doesn't work, but hopeful explains what I am trying to do.

Posted: **Thu Jun 09, 2005 5:50 pm**

Yes, of course this would work, just like you wrote it!

You can use variables anywhere in newLISP.

Lutz

Posted: **Thu Jun 09, 2005 6:42 pm**

Yes you are right, and in fact I was doing the following.

(if (not (find (rest tag) s-tag 0))

The problem of course is that I put a quote before s-tag

's-tag

which of course will ruin everything. It turns out to be something of an embarrassing oversite

:D

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