perl regex modifiers

[Mark Brownell]

Alex, Dar,

On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 01:48  PM, Alex Rice wrote:

> 1) whitespace matters in regex
> 2) "^" anchors to beginning of the input string-
>
> try put "<perl>(.*)(</perl>)" into regEx

The docs for matchText use this and it works:

matchText(myVar,"^From: (.*) <(.+ at .+)>",userName,userAddress)

When I use "<perl>(.*)(</perl>)"  for regEx I get True.

So it works great. If this optimizes in a repeat loop faster than my 
offset() repeat loop handler, and I'll bet it does, then I can use it 
for single extractions where there is only one possible instance of a 
tag-set in the text being searched. If there was a regEx parameter for 
after a certain point for matchText(), like there is in offset(), then 
I could drop using the offset() handler. I wonder if offSet() has a way 
of incorporating regEx into it.

  There is something funny about all this. Several years ago someone 
tried to tell me about using Perl regEx to do what I was doing. I 
didn't think there was a way to do it in Director so I forgot about it. 
Now it comes back several years later and it does work better, in Rev.

Thanks,

Mark