Way to do RegEx substring replacements?
J. Landman Gay
jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Sat Mar 4 21:50:11 EST 2006
Jim Witte wrote:
> Is there a way in Revolution (2.0.3) to do a RegEx find and replace
> using one of the sub-expressions, like finding
>
> (....) ([^x]*)x.*
>
> and replacing by
>
> \1\t\2
>
> directly without having to use matchText to extract the subexpressions
> and then construct the line? (Yes, I know this should be in Perl,
> Python, or something else - that's next after the prototype is done)
See if the "replaceText" function does what you want.
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