What I found about RegEx (was Re: Regular Expressions Resources)
What I found about RegEx (was Re: Regular Expressions Resources)
- Subject: What I found about RegEx (was Re: Regular Expressions Resources)
- From: Greg Back <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 20:35:09 -0400
on 10/7/01 3:29 PM, Rob Jorgensen at email@hidden wrote:
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BBEdit 6.x (not sure about the Lite version) has a menu command which
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does this. There are also entries in the BBEdit HTML scripting
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dictionary to accomplish the same thing.
Does this come with the Lite version (which I have) or the "non-Lite"
version? I can't seem to find it, so I assume it only comes with the paid
version.
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make tags lower case: makes the tags in the frontmost window lowercase
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make tags lower case
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make tags upper case: makes the tags in the frontmost window uppercase
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make tags upper case
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Exactly what i was looking for, if I had it.
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Later,
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Rob Jorgensen
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Ohio, USA
on 10/7/01 3:29 PM, vectormation at email@hidden wrote:
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BBedit's "grep" help will teach you the basics of regular expressions,
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and a web search on either topic should turn up other resources... have
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you tried Sherlock or google.com?
No I hadn't but had I looked I would have found more than I needed. Thanks
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a few basics :
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\ - escape character, needed to "escape" special characters and make
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them "literal"
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* - any number of any characters
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[] - indicates a "set" of characters to match ("[0-9]" accepts any of
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{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9})
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() - used for grouping ala math
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~Phi
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Thanks to both of you for your help (and anyone else who has replied since I
read the other two messages).
Greg