Argfile and regex assistance

Brian,

I've been enjoying using the command line interface of the Compare tool and it has been very helpful thus far, but I am having a little difficulty in the granularity of selecting objects to compare (or not to in this case).

Here is the argfile:

&lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt;
&lt;commandline&gt;
    &lt;include objecttype="Table"/&gt;
    &lt;exclude objecttype="Table" matches="t_rpt_rcn_"/&gt;
    &lt;exclude objecttype="Table" matches="t_temp_"/&gt;
    &lt;force/&gt;
    &lt;outputwidth&gt;140&lt;/outputwidth&gt;
    &lt;snapshot1&gt;\\server1\snapshot1.SNP&lt;/snapshot1&gt;
    &lt;snapshot2&gt;\\server2\snapshot2.SNP&lt;/snapshot2&gt;
    &lt;out&gt;\\server3\output.txt&lt;/out&gt;
    &lt;report&gt;\\server3\report.html&lt;/report&gt;
&lt;/commandline&gt;

What I would like to do is now exclude all tables that start with "t_str_" with the exception of "t_str_dimension" and t_str_levels". I really don't want to have to explicitly exclude all 49 remaining tables.

Any ideas?

Peace,
Gary Hampson

GaryHampson February 11, 2005 11:22

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Hi Gary,

Thanks for posting here. You should be able to get away with this rather easily. You can make a regular expression that matches the first part of the table but not the endings that you specify and put that in an exclude tag:
```
    &lt;exclude objecttype="Table" matches="\&#91;t_str_&#40;?!dimension\&#93;|levels\&#93;&#41;"/&gt;
```
Brian Donahue February 11, 2005 13:24

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That is wonderful!! Thanks again Brian.. You are the best!!

GaryHampson February 11, 2005 13:25

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