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  48                         <h3 class="entry-header">PQA Dynamic Lists</h3>
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  52   <li>Changed Dynamic Lists to properly handle bad data</li>
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  56                               <h2>Dynamic Lists and Bad Data</h2>
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  58 <p>I now have pqamerge properly creating Dynamic Lists. In the past I would call SetFieldChoiceList, which would allow validate and commit to work, but which wouldn't actually add a member to the Dynamic List. I've since changed that.</p>
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  60 <p>The first problem I hit was that Clearquest would treat "1.A" as the same as "1.a". So when pqamerge attempted to add "1.a" to the Dynamic List it would fail. I needed to compare ignoring case. In Perl usually one uses a regex for that and specifies "i" to ignore case.</p>
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  62 <div class="code"><pre>
  63 if ($var =~ /^$pattern$/i) {
  64   &lt;<i>matched ignoring case</i>&gt;
  65 } # if
  66 </pre></div>
  67
  68 <p>But some of the values of the various Dynamic Lists contain regex meta characters (e.g. "?" or "(") which caused me problems. I've fixed those now.</p>
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  71 if ("\L$var\E" eq "\L$pattern\E") {
  72   &lt;<i>matched ignoring case</i>&gt;
  73 } # if
  74 </pre></div>
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  76 <p>The above basically says to downshift characters between the "\L" and the "\E". Then a regular eq is used so as to avoid problems with interpreting regex meta characters.</p>
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