I learned to use regex by playing with the find and replace tools in BBEdit. (Now I use TextEdit, which also works well for this.) And as I've noted in the LC Dictionary, I find this reference useful: http://www.regextester.com/pregsyntax.html
- Charles On 2012-12-28, at 11:26 AM, Peter Haworth <p...@lcsql.com> wrote: > Seriously though, I have this feeling that matchText and matchChunk are > potentially very useful tools if only I could understand the syntax of > regular expressions. I've been to both web references mentioned in > the dictionary and have a really hard time understanding them. > > Does anyone have any references to using regular expressions, preferable > with lots of examples? > > Pete > lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> > > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Mark Wieder <mwie...@ahsoftware.net>wrote: > >> Peter- >> >> Thursday, December 27, 2012, 9:06:19 PM, you wrote: >> >>>>> You mean regex doesn't make you run around babbling about purple >> things?! >>> You mean regex doesn't make you run around babbling about purple things?! >> >> ...I suppose the next step is to make it recursive... >> >> -- >> -Mark Wieder >> mwie...@ahsoftware.net >> -- Charles E. Buchwald http://buchwald.ca Vancouver / Mexico City / NYC Member of the 02 Global Network for Sustainable Design • Connect on LinkedIn • Follow me on Twitter _______________________________________________ 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
