[Typo3-dev] Wildcard match on globalString

[Michael Stucki]

Ries van Twisk wrote:
> The routine:  function matchWild($haystack,$needle) {...}
> Doesn't do a wildcard match on just *,
> I would suspect (I might be wrong) that it would match any empty string
> there.
> 
> Instead this case condition get's triggered and does a exact match.
> case 'beforeafter':
> if (strstr($haystack,substr($needle,1,-1)))   return true;
> break;
> 
> What can I do to do a wildcard on globalString (match a non empty
> string)? except writing a user function.....

It's not possible atm, sorry

- michael

PS: I just changed the matchWild function to make it compare using
preg_match instead of the very limited * at the beginning or the end of the
string. So it should be possible in 4.0...
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