On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 20:18:02 +0100, mick.crane wrote:
> Oh, I see what the question was.
> There is "use regular expressions", "use multi line matching" in Geany
> I'm not very good at regular expressions.
> I'd probably do it 3 times
> "search for" <span class="verse" id="V(...)">
> "search for" <span class="verse" id="V(..)">
> "search for" <span class="verse" id="V(.)">
There's more than one regular expression syntax, so the first step is
to figure out which *kind* of regular expression you're writing.
In a Basic Regular Expression (BRE), you can write "one to three
digits" as:
[[:digit:]]\{1,3\}
In an Extended Regular Expression (ERE), you'd remove the backslashes:
[[:digit:]]{1,3}
Some people would use [0-9] instead of [[:digit:]]. [0-9] should work
in any locale I'm aware of, but is theoretically less portable than
[[:digit:]]. If you're actually doing this by typing a regex into an
editor, then [0-9] might be preferred because it's easier to type. If
you're writing a program, you should probably go with [[:digit:]].
