Idea: Filter Text

Hopscotch Language Evolution
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A feature I’d like to see in Hopscotch is:

Filtering Text

I’d use it for this type of project:

Filtering Numbers/Text

Here are some examples of Hopscotch code that could be improved if we had this:

SEPERATING NUMBERS FROM TEXT/ TEXT FROM NUMBERS.
I cant think of a way to do it without using beta editor

Here is an example design I’ve made:

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I’ve seen something similar in another programming languages, it looks like this:

I forgot

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Stolen first post

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Uh I don’t understand…
Can you tell me what you think the block will look like?
(Like “[set width (102039)]”)

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Basically a “match expression” text operator.

(Like length of string but instead is labeled “match”)

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filtering text is basically if “gaucho” is in var(randomWords) set text to are you a gaucho?

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Isn’t that what match does?

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yes

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Yeah but we want “match” not “if matches”

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So basically 1 or 0?

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No, this would actually get the text match.

The block I made would set variable to 123

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Oh I see
Just gets the part that matches

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interesting

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Siri Shortcuts?

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Yeah
[Match (Text) with (text)]

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JavaScript
oops didn’t mean to reply to you

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Oops I meant
[match (text) with (text) in (input)]

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i don’t understand

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I mean removing some text
(e.g. you wanna output “hello” only in “hello world”)

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Ok ok
So you joined -1?

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ohhhhh
i get it
cool idea!