filter command limitation?

[dunbarx]

The "Filter" command is compact and powerful. But it is limited in the sense that it only works with "whole" lines, items, keys, etc. In other words, I wish that, given in a field 1:

aa,bb,cc
dd,ee,ff
gg,hh,jj

it would filter out line 2 from the following:

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on mouseUp
   get fld 1
   filter lines of it without "ee"
end mouseUp 

But it does not, since it only sees "whole" lines. Am i missing something here? Is there a way to lose line 2 because it contains a string, as opposed to the line being the string?

Craig

[SparkOut]

Hi Craig,
You can use * as a wildcard before/after the filter part. With some possible fudging for beginning/ends of the line and checking for CR as well.