From c8939fa6d8fbe95b1dee315fbfe41c0bcdef3c6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christopher Lackner <clackner@cerbsim.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2021 17:52:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] String access of listofshape using regexp

---
 libsrc/occ/python_occ_shapes.cpp | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/libsrc/occ/python_occ_shapes.cpp b/libsrc/occ/python_occ_shapes.cpp
index 43dfbec8..54f3f836 100644
--- a/libsrc/occ/python_occ_shapes.cpp
+++ b/libsrc/occ/python_occ_shapes.cpp
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 #ifdef NG_PYTHON
 #ifdef OCCGEOMETRY
 
+#include <regex>
+
 #include <../general/ngpython.hpp>
 #include <core/python_ngcore.hpp>
 #include "../meshing/python_mesh.hpp"
@@ -1551,9 +1553,10 @@ DLL_HEADER void ExportNgOCCShapes(py::module &m)
     .def("__getitem__",[](const ListOfShapes & self, string name)
          {
            ListOfShapes selected;
+           std::regex pattern(name);
            for (auto s : self)
              if (auto sname = OCCGeometry::global_shape_properties[s.TShape()].name)
-               if (sname == name)
+               if (std::regex_match(*sname, pattern))
                  selected.push_back(s);
            return selected;
          }, "returns list of all shapes named 'name'")