Rowfilters - use length or regex

[Masa Ito]

The rowfilter in a dataview seems to support a very limited subset of regex
expressions.

I need to filter a column of strings by their length. ie: if 2 character
code, or 3 character code.

Currently, I am looping all the rows, and deleting them when they don't
match the length. Resetting/loading the datasource every time a new filter
is applied. This is slow - I need a better way.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Masa

[Masa Ito]

Masa Ito <ma**@WeDoNotWantSpam.com> wrote in
news:Xn**********************************@207.46.2 48.16:

The rowfilter in a dataview seems to support a very limited subset of
regex expressions.
I need to filter a column of strings by their length. ie: if 2
character code, or 3 character code.
Currently, I am looping all the rows, and deleting them when they
don't match the length. Resetting/loading the datasource every time a
new filter is applied. This is slow - I need a better way.
Does anyone have any ideas?

Answering myself - I gave up, after researching a bit more - apparently
regex and rowfilters don't work too well. I ended up creating another
column, assigning length to it, and using it for the rowfilter.

Masa

[Cor Ligthert]

Masa,

What would have been my answer

:-)

Cor