GREP saved my bacon in several occasions. And the regular expressions in LC are somewhat similar to GREP, but not quite.
In GREP I can do this: stringToChange: <body><span>Block of text</span></body> matchExpression: <span>[^<]+</span> replacementString: <div>?</div> result: <body><div><span>Block of text</span></div></body> The question-mark fills in everything that matches the matchExpression. Very useful when you want to put something around the found instances. Or you can even take it a step further by using ( and ) in combination with \1, \2 etc.: stringToChange: <body><span class="MakeMeVisible">Block of text</span></body> matchExpression: <span class="([^"]+)">([^<]+)</span> replacementString: <span>\1: \2</span> result: <body><span>MakeMeVisible: Block of text</span></body> The \1 fills in what it found inside the first pair of parentheses; the \2 the second pair. This way you can do really powerful replacements, if you know what you are doing. So I wonder how I do this in LC. I know I need to use Perlre and not GREP. So how do I do this in Perlre? Terry _______________________________________________ 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
