Re: Regular Expressions Resources
Re: Regular Expressions Resources
- Subject: Re: Regular Expressions Resources
- From: Greg Back <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 06:17:29 -0400
From applescript-users digest, Vol 2 #1174 - 11 msgs:
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Message: 5
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Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 22:27:21 +0200
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To: email@hidden
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From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: Regular Expressions Resources
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Greg Back <email@hidden> asked:
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> I currently have the Regular Expressions OSAX from Script Tools
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> 1.3.6, but am willing to look at others if they are better. Also,
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> would BBEdit work for this sort of thing?
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- the Satimage osax implements the Regular Expressions.
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- Smile's "Search" dialog box includes the shortest regexp help ever.
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- Some users say that Satimage's implementation of regexp is good.
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- Smile's "Search" dialog box (like any "Search" dialog box proposing
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regexp) makes testing regexp easier and more efficient than thru script
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lines. So, you may develop faster if you use a software than an osax - for
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developing, I mean.
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Best regards,
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Emmanuel
I originally used BBEdit Lite to experiment with RegEx Searching (Grep?),
but if Smile's searches can use them too, I should use it more (killing two
birds with one stone, right?) as my default Scripting App.
Thanks, Emmanuel and all who have helped me enhance my scripting
capabilities through the use of regular expressions.
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Greg