Wait until you get to the rapids.
Bob S
> On Aug 1, 2018, at 09:34 , David V Glasgow via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> I am just dipping my toes in the shallows of regex, and have already stubbed
> my toe on a rock. Well two, actually.
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Thank you both. Wow. Looks like it really is worth the effort! I played
around on regex101.com, but the problem is if you don’t know the terms for what
you want to do, its really hard to find the appropriate symbol.
Thanks again.
> On 1 Aug 2018, at 6:24 pm, Brian Milby via use-livecode
>
Don’t have time to test right now but something along these lines:
\b[0-9] ?(yr|yo|year)
\b is a word break
? Means 0 or 1 of previous char (space)
| is alternate separator
Thanks,
Brian
On Aug 1, 2018, 11:58 AM -0500, Stephen MacLean via use-livecode
, wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> While no expert on
Hi David,
While no expert on Regex, there are some online tools and libraries that you
can use to work out the appropriate regex before putting it into your LC script.
Some sites I use:
https://www.regextester.com
https://regex101.com
https://www.rexegg.com/regex-quickstart.html
and
http:/
I am just dipping my toes in the shallows of regex, and have already stubbed my
toe on a rock. Well two, actually.
I am looking to identify the lines of a field (that contain lots of words and
symbols with no particular structure or separator ) finding age related terms,
which can be in a var
