Re: A Better Regex
Re: A Better Regex
- Subject: Re: A Better Regex
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:07:50 -0700
- Thread-topic: A Better Regex
Smile (regular) is free.
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Paul Berkowitz
> From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:52:47 -0400
> To: Rick Gordon <email@hidden>
> Cc: <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: A Better Regex
>
> Right. It has [:space:], just not the \s shortcut. But unlike
> Satimage, Smile is not free, right?
>
>
> On 8/19/07, Rick Gordon <email@hidden> wrote:
>> Smile's ufind and uchange do support lazy vs. greedy matching and lookarounds
>> (though like most implementations, lookbehinds require fixed-character-length
>> strings). And the [:space:] metacharacter maps to space, tab, CR, LF, or FF.
>>
>> Rick Gordon
>>
>> ------------------
>>
>> On 8/20/07 at 9:32 AM +1000, T&B wrote in a message entitled
>> "Fwd: A Better Regex":
>>
>>> Hmmm so it seems that the Satimage OSAX doesn't do full PCRE regexp (eg
>>> greedy matching and escape character for whitespace). So the best
>>> AppleScript RegExp solution I have is my GetRegexMatches subroutine below.
>>> Questions:
>>>
>>> 1. Can any perl scripters out there optimize my routine, such as performing
>>> the ReplaceText operations inside perl? Obviously we still want to be able
>>> to call it from AppleScript.
>>>
>>> 2. Is there a better/faster way to perform RegExp from AppleScript that
>>> supports the full PCRE spec?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Tom
>>
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