[Gambas-user] Select Case problem

[Bruce]

On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 17:05 +1030, Bruce wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to parse a text file that contains key,value pairs like:
>         Name=Malarky
>         Size=10
>         BackImage[N]=sometext
>         FrontImage[S]=sometext
>         etc
> using a construct like
>         For idx = 0 to sourcearray.max
>           Select Upper(Split(SourceArray[idx],"+")[0])
>             Case "NAME"
>               blah blah
>             Case "SIZE"
>               blah blah
>             Case Like "BACKIMAGE[*]"
>               blah blah
>             Case Like "FRONTIMAGE[*]"
>               blah blah
>           End Select
>         Next
> 
> This fails because Case Like "BACKIMAGE[*]" is being interpreted as a
> regular expression where I need to escape the regexp "[]" meaning.
> 
> Trying to use escapes like 
>   Case Like "BACKIMAGE\[*\]" 
> fails as \[ is an unknown escape sequence.
> 
> Any clues?
> 
> tia
> Bruce
> 

Sorry, I have over simplified that.  I also need to discern lines like
        BACKIMAGE[*]
from lines like
        BACKIMAGE[*][*]
so 
        Like "BACKIMAGE*"
wont work.

B