matchtext question using regex

[Jim Ault]

try studying the "|" symbol, which is OR
There are many ways of using it with strings and substrings and patterns.

Jim Ault
Las Vegas


On 5/4/07 10:41 AM, "ron" <rbarber at yhb.att.ne.jp> wrote:

> Regex question for use in matchtext
> 
> I want to find word A followed by word B.  (quickly)
> So:
> put "this is my big dog called cat." into thetext
> put "my.{0,5}dog" into reg
> 
> And
> put matchtext(thetext,reg)
> returns true because I use a period so it is counting characters but I
> need it to count words. I have tried various combinations of \b and \w
> to no avail.
> 
> Something like :
> put "my([^ ]* ){0,5}dog" into reg
> works but only for words followed by spaces, not punctuation for
> example. These could be included but surely there is a more elegant and
> faster way?
> 
> Can someone help me out with this?
> 
> 
> BTW, is it true that setting the wholematches to true and using
> wordoffset only returns 'words' that are followed by a space? So that
> in the example sentence above, 'cat' is not found because it is
> followed by a period? Is this correct?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Ron
> 
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