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Hi
Can an* be used in a rule to denote anything?

SO for example I have some UK postcodes with shipping rates denoted:

SN8 3E*
SN8 3F*
SN8 3H*
The second character here would be a letter so what would the syntaxt be?

If the * cannot be used would it simply be a case of UK_Inward >3E<3ZZ ?

Any help greatly appreciated.
John

Dear John,
Unfortunately, there is no wildcard character that can be used to match the UK inbound.

There are, however, some ways to achieve something similar:
-) You can use substring(UK_Inward, 0, 2) to get only the first two characters of the inbound:
-) You can use the regexp plugin (open-tools.net/virtuemart/advanced-shipp...ipping-by-rules.html ) to make a regular expression match on the outward. This basically achieves what you want with the wildcards, but is a bit more general, but also more complex:
Best regards,
Reinhold

Hi
We tried the following rules, none of them got working :(

Name=Shipping; UK_outward=="RG17"; substring(UK_Inward, 0, 2) in list("0T", "0U", "0W"); shipping=123
Name=Shipping; UK_outward=="RG17"; substring(UK_Inward, 0, 3) in list("0TT", "0UL", "0WL"); shipping=123
Name=Shipping; UK_outward=="RG17"; shipping=123
Name=Shipping; substring(UK_Inward, 0, 2) in list("0T", "0U", "0W"); shipping=123

Dear John,
Do you get any error messages, or do the shipping costs simply not apply?
If you append a catch-all rule likeis this shipping rate offered at least? If not, then the shipping method is never even considered. If it is offered, then it really is an issue with the rules.

Which version of the plugin do you have installed?

Best regards
Reinhold