[4GL/ABL] Regular expression is possible to do in this language?

Mon, 2008-05-19 13:43 — Matrixbob

Good morning to all guy! :)

I'm a new italian user of OpenEdge SW suite, so sorry for my bad english. :(

I come from C, PHP and SQL languages and now i start to work with OE.

My first question is relative at the "regular expression":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression
http://www.regular-expressions.info/
http://php.html.it/articoli/leggi/851/espressioni-regolari/

, can i use this "power tool" with the frame's fill-in or form's textbox?!
I think to use these to ckeck the validate of the string in input.

TNX a lot!

4GL/ABL General Programming

Mon, 2008-05-19 14:01 — sasha

[4GL/ABL] Regular expression is possible to do in this language?

Hi and welcome...

ABL doesn't have built in regular expressions, although you can achieve quite a lot using FORMAT phrase (see documentation). However, there is nothing preventing you from using third party dll and making api calls passing the widget's screen-value and regex that you want to be used.
Just google for "regex shared library".

Hope this helps,
Sasha

Thu, 2008-05-22 08:16 — Matrixbob