On Mar 28, 2012, at 10:19 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote:
> I am building a regular expression to find a set of question marks and
> exclamation points. For example ??? or !!!.
put "This is a !!! test" into tData
get matchChunk(tData,"(\!{3,})",tStart,tEnd)
put tStart,tEnd
--> 11,13
The "!" is escaped with the backslash (\) and then the use of {3,} means "3 of
the previous character", so:
\!{3,}
matches !!!
Then you surround the match test with parentheses to cause an extraction, and
that fills tStart and tEnd with the start and end offsets of the extracted
chunk.
You can do the same thing with ?…
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: k...@sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
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