Good catch. I think the "*" in the original version referred to "\w+" so
that's probably what messed it up.
On Wed Feb 25 2015 at 12:30:15 PM Mike Bonner <bonnm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Try this instead..
> put "(?i)^\s*(\-\-\s+begin)\s+(\w+).*+|" & \
> "^\s*(on)\s+(\w+).*+|" & \
> "^\s*(function)\s+(\w+).*+|" & \
> "^\s*(command)\s+(\w+).*+|" & \
> "^\s*(private\s+function)\s+(\w+).*+|" & \
> "^\s*(private\s+command)\s+(\w+).*+|" & \
> "^\s*(\/\*\s+include).*+|" & \
> "^\s*(\*\/).*+" \
> into expr
>
> You are using an * to match anything, but for some reason it seems to be
> messing things up. If you add the . (period) before it to match any char,
> then the asterisk knows what its matching any number of. (impressive
> sentence ending there)
>
> Have tested a little, it seems to solve it, though i'm not sure why.
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Michael Doub <miked...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Am I doing something really crazy here? There is no way that the result
> > will be true. Replace the " hhh " with "*/" and you still get true but
> > it is not doing the capture. Replace the " hhh " with "function foo"
> and
> > you get an expected response.
> >
> > Should I even expect alternatives to be supported?
> >
> > -= Mike
> >
> >
> > on mouseUp
> > put "(?i)^\s*(\-\-\s+begin)\s+(\w+)*+|" & \
> > "^\s*(on)\s+(\w+)*+|" & \
> > "^\s*(function)\s+(\w+)*+|" & \
> > "^\s*(command)\s+(\w+)*+|" & \
> > "^\s*(private\s+function)\s+(\w+)*+|" & \
> > "^\s*(private\s+command)\s+(\w+)*+|" & \
> > "^\s*(\/\*\s+include)*+|" & \
> > "^\s*(\*\/)*+" \
> > into expr
> > get MatchText(" hhh ",expr,r1,r2,r3,r4,r5,r6,r7,
> > r8,r9,r10,r11,r12,r13,r14)
> > answer it & cr & r1,r2,r3,r4,r5,r6,r7,r8,r9,r10,r11,r12,r13,r14
> > end mouseUp
> >
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