Thanks James and Mike. I am on a Mac and I think have TextWrangler installed somewhere so I can take a look at that. The plugin is RegEx Builder, right Mike?
The video tutorials I mentioned are really good since they are very interactive and use lots of examples. I already know how to validate an email address and an ip address... not that I need to do either of those things but the examples that show how to do it and explain it are really useful. Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnm...@gmail.com> wrote: > The regex builder plugin in LC is pretty handy too and can help you work > things out in lc itself. You can also be pretty sure of it works in the > builder, it will work in LC (though in all things, YMMV) > > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 3:07 PM, James Hale <ja...@thehales.id.au> wrote: > > > Pete asked: > > "Does anyone have any references to using regular expressions, preferable > > with lots of examples?" > > > > If you are using a Mac i suggest getting yourself a copy of BBedit or its > > free sibling "TextWrangler". > > I have never been much for using terminal commands and the like as I > > always preferred the Mac GUI so when it came to text manipulation I > sought > > out easier tools. Nisus was my first taste of using regex with its token > > substitutions but when it when in to abeyance for a while I turned to > > BBedit. > > It allows the use of grep ( a command line regex tool) in its find and > > replace dialog and also does find and replace across multiple files. It's > > manual provides a good introduction to what you can do with regex, it is > > blindingly fast and a really easily way to try out different expressions. > > I found it invaluable when I wrote a web-scrapping app to provide a back > > end to my DVD collection many years ago. I still have times when I need > to > > do a lot of text manipulation and will inevitably turn to BBedit's regex > > prowess to do the heavy lifting. > > As for references, there are lots on the web and O'Reilly have a couple > of > > good books. > > But BBEDIT (or TextWrangler) will provide an easily accessible interface > > into using regex and trying out different things. > > > > James > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
