[pmwiki-users] Include with a Regular Expression

[Stirling Westrup]

Eric Celeste wrote:
> I'd like to create a recent changes page that only includes a subset of 
> pages in a given group. For example, a set of pages in the group start 
> with the name "Nico-" and another set start with "Hcm-" and I'd like to 
> have two separate RecentChanges pages so that interested parties need 
> only see those changes.
> 
> I am wondering if there is any version of the "(:include:)" directive 
> that understands regular expressions? I didn't see a cookbook to this 
> effect, but I imagine someone may have run into a need like this before. 
> If I could just include lines that match a certain pattern, then the 
> task of building a limited RecentChanges page would be pretty simple.
> 
> Of course, maybe there is a better way of approaching the problem 
> altogether!
> 
Its not clear how you are planning to use (:include...:) directives to 
create the RecentChanges pages you want, but you can probably do it by 
using a (:pagelist...:) command (which can accept wildcards or, with a 
bit of work, regular expressions) and have the (:include:) directive 
appear in the display template for the pagelist.