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dpeterson
Occasional Contributor
12 years ago

aqString.StrMatches only works with hard-coded strings. Seriously???

The following statement returns a boolean value as stated in the product documentation for aqString.StrMatches: result = aqString.StrMatches("dog", "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogs...
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matt_rasband
New Contributor
12 years ago
Things like this are why I stay as far away from the smart bear built ins as possible.  JScript (even this ancient implementation) supports regex, which is probably a better approach to finding strings often anyway, IMO.  Not sure why they wanted to re-invent the wheel with a lot of the stuff.