You might try (?m) to switch on multiline mode at the start of your regex. I'm pretty sure that won't work though. LC makes you use a repeat loop to go through each line and issue the replaceText() against each one.
Hope that Thierry chimes in with a workaround for this - he's the LC regex King. Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html> On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Dr. Hawkins <doch...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a variable with: > > /Users/hawk/bk_clients/blue aardvark/blue_aardvark____001.dhbk > /Users/hawk/bk_clients/pink panther/pink_panther_____001.dhbk > /Users/hawk/bk_clients/super chicken/super_chicken____005.dhbk > /Users/hawk/bk_clients/test5/test5____________001.dhbk > > which was obtained with a shell command and ls on OSX > > Using replaceText() to replace ^/Users/hawk/bk_clients/ with empty, I get > > blue aardvark/blue_aardvark____001.dhbk > /Users/hawk/bk_clients/pink panther/pink_panther_____001.dhbk > /Users/hawk/bk_clients/super chicken/super_chicken____005.dhbk > /Users/hawk/bk_clients/test5/test5____________001.dhbk > > That is, the ^ is only being applied to the variable as a whole, rather > than to each line. > > Does this have to do with how livecode and OSX delimit lines? > > -- > Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. > (702) 508-8462 > _______________________________________________ > 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
