Searching for element name substrings in ACL

[ebenton]

Maybe I am mistaken and don't know what I am doing (a good possibility), but it seems like wild cards (*) in substr don't work very well when searching for element names. I am trying to search for any elements that contain a given substring in their name, such as "-xyz". What is the correct syntax to use for this in ACL?
For instance, if I were looking for any element that contained the substring "-xyz" in the element name, how would that oid_find_children(), or whatever, function read?

As I have stated before, I am no ACL expert, nor do I play one on TV.
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[bibach]

Hey, Ed...

Try something like this:

oid_find_children(oid, arr, ".*-xyz.*", 😎

The value 8 for the "flags" argument specifies that the "tag" argument
is a regular expression. The "." matches any character and the "*"
matches zero or more of whatever is right before it.

-Brandon 🙂

[ebenton]

Thanks, Brandon.