On Mar 28, 2012, at 9:39 AM, I wrote: > I have a bias (often warranted) towards using LC's text and chunking > capabilities rather than LC. If you know that the runs of question marks and > exclamation points will alway be length = 3 then you could avoid Regex: ...
Sorry, meant to say "I have a bias (often warranted) towards using LC's text and chunking capabilities rather than Regex." A further thought: if the runs of ? and ! could be larger than 3 chars then you could: repeat until "????" is not in tText replace "????" with "???" in tText end repeat -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Mar 28, 2012, at 11:19 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: > I am building a regular expression to find a set of question marks and > exclamation points. For example ??? or !!!. > > These are special characters so they mean something to a regular expression. > > How do I find them in the text? > > If I want to find a word such as "Bill" I can matchText with (\bBill\b) but I > can't do (\b!!!\b) and if I do (\b???\b) I get an error. > > I've looked on the web for escaping characters and they suggest using a slash > before. However, when I try (\b\!\!\!\b) it doesn't work. > > I've also found references to \Q…\E to have everything between a literal but > (\b\Q!!!\E\b) doesn't work either. > > Any ideas? > > Bill Vlahos > _________________ > InfoWallet (http://www.infowallet.com) is about keeping your important life > information with you, accessible, and secure. > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
