Talk:Regular Expression Short-Answer question type
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The example about the French flag always expects students to say the answer Blue, White and Red. What happens if a students answers Red, white and blue? Can regular expressions deal with any combination of answers?
Peter_Nickson
@Peter:
- The only way to match words in any order is to actually write all the possible different combinations, e.g.
(blue white red|blue red white|white blue red|white red blue|red white blue|red blue white)--Joseph Rézeau 06:48, 17 February 2012 (WST)
- EDIT.- With regexp version 2012102900 for Moodle 2.3 you can now use a special syntax which simplifies the task of writing those combinations (or permutations). See The Permutation Feature (Example 4).--Joseph Rézeau 01:35, 30 October 2012 (WST)
- But the Pmatch question type can handle this sort of thing: http://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=qtype_pmatch (It's only available for 2.1 and later, however)--Tim Hunt 17:31, 17 February 2012 (WST)
- Unfortunately there is not much documentation in the Moodle wiki about pmatch and it's hard to find--Joseph Rézeau 00:56, 18 February 2012 (WST)
