                                                                     crit_astrg
Chapter 13 Set and Criteria Selection

Yet another command for evaluating object attributes, the crit_astrg command
sets criteria with regard to matching attribute characters or character
sequences with user-specified data (template).

crit_astrg

    Criteria: match of input template string to attribute.

         crit_astrg string

    Establishes criteria for set selection by attribute string matching.  The
    input string must match the attribute string exactly except where special,
    wildcard (meta) characters are included in the string.  Up to 10
    occurrences of this command are allowed.  When multiple crit_astrg entries
    exist, only one must be true for an object to be included in the target
    set. 
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    Options/arguments:

         string    String of characters, where:
                   ?  =  will match any 1 character in attribute 
                   *  =  will match any group of characters in attribute
                   \\ =  will match \ in attribute 
                   \? =  will match ? in attribute 
                   \* =  will match * in attribute
         NOTE: only one * meta-character may be used in a string
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    Example(s):

    An entry of:

         crit_astrg a*2

    will match the strings abcdhegar%#&q&2 and a2 but will not match 2a .

    An entry of:

         crit_astrg a?2

    will match the strings a?2, ab2 and a22 , but will not match the string a2.

    To match an attribute string of \clear, enter:

         crit_astrg \\clear
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    See also:

              crit_clear, crit_exec, crit_arange, crit_slen
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