IDS-checks with wildcards?

[matteoluigi]

a lot of our Vectorworks-work is based on the code we name styles or symbols after.

So for example wallstyles/wall components are called "WA-I-..." or "WA-A-..." which basically means, that it's an interior (innen) or exterior (aussen) Wand.

 

Now I'd like to write an IDS-check in usbim or somewhere else (at least it will be xml code) in order to check it in an external checking app (BlenderBIM for example) (or maybe someday in Vectorworks 😉 ).

Now I am struggeling with wildcards in the ids check. unfortunately "*-A-*" and "*-I-*" don't work. But, what does work? I read somewhere, that I need regular expressions for beeing able to work with wildcards within an ids-file, but, WHO do I do it? At least I just wanna say "if a pset contains "*-I-*" the object should be interior, if it contains instead "*-A-*" it should be exterior.

How can I do that?

I already tried it in a few ways, I asked chatgpt for help with that expression.

I actually don't know. 😕 

[matteoluigi]

now found that interactive course, hope it helps 🙂

https://regexone.com/

Edited February 1 by matteoluigi