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Re: How to search a QUESTION MARK in a regular expression

EB — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:35:02 GMT

As is so often the case, I overlooked the obvious. I thought I had tried pretty much everything - but apparently not. The \ seems to work. THANK YOU!

Re: How to search a QUESTION MARK in a regular expression

flo.gehrke — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:40:27 GMT

... An alternative is to search the '?' in hex '\x3F' or octal '\077'. Regards, Flo

Re: How to search a QUESTION MARK in a regular expression

John Shotsky — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:14:09 GMT

I use this all the time to find ends of sentences: (\.|\?|!)(\R|\x20|\)|\") It could also be done using classes (which don't need escapes except for a few

Re: How to search a QUESTION MARK in a regular expression

Robert Bull — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:02:19 GMT

Wednesday, October 10, 2012, 2:00:55 AM, EB wrote: E> / ?fred(.*)p=31 did not work as a search string in FIND. I think John's right to suggest trying

Re: How to search a QUESTION MARK in a regular expression

John Shotsky — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 01:11:37 GMT

\? Regards, John RecipeTools Web Site: http://recipetools.gotdns.com/ From: ntb-scripts@yahoogroups.com

How to search a QUESTION MARK in a regular expression

EB — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 01:04:54 GMT

I have a bunch of lines in a file that look something like this: Ga53t76lah/Z3vdeg14/V0c2/?freds=OTvvA4OfhbfjI6MQ,0,0,0,&p=31 I want to strip everything to the

Re: Finding Pairwise Matches

flo.gehrke — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:31:57 GMT

... A single '«[^\,]*?»' or even '«[^,]+»' (no need to escape comma in character class) would match that '«yyyy»' section but your RegEx is demanding

Re: NTB or RegEx Bug

John Shotsky — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:11:44 GMT

I agree, and use the star heavily in my clip libraries. Regards, John RecipeTools Web Site: http://recipetools.gotdns.com/

Re: NTB or RegEx Bug

flo.gehrke — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:39:10 GMT

... In this context, I understood that 'a' is just an element that, "in practice", would primarily represent an element in a more complex pattern. In this

Re: NTB or RegEx Bug

Axel Berger — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:07:50 GMT

... I think in practice a star quantifier on its own is meaningless, there must be at least one other thing in the pattern. If you're interested in one

Re: NTB or RegEx Bug

flo.gehrke — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 13:51:59 GMT

I understand that you are testing a subject string like... However ... aaa ... starting from the beginning of the line. So 'aaa' is not at the start of line

Re: NTB or RegEx Bug

Art Kocsis — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 00:10:02 GMT

Yes, a zero length match satisfies a{0,}. So does all of other the remaining partial matches. But the whole point is that a* is supposed to be greedy. Look at

Re: NTB or RegEx Bug

flo.gehrke — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:56:51 GMT

... No bug -- neither in PCRE nor in NTb. 'a*' is equivalent to a{0,}. So, at the beginning of the subject string, the engine achieves a match of zero length

Re: NTB or RegEx Bug

John Shotsky — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:43:43 GMT

It may be a matter of opinion, but when a * is used, it will first evaluate the very next character following the cursor or the point in the line that is being

Re: NTB or RegEx Bug

Eric Fookes — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:33:32 GMT

Hi Art, ... Indeed, it looks like a bug in the regex engine of those NoteTab versions. I just tested NoteTab 7 and it worked correctly. So it seems the updated