regex/HTMLText question

[zryip theSlug]

Hi Chris,

As said by Jim Ault, I think that you have first to decide the list of whole
word forms you accept.
"space&use&space";"use&comma","use&dot"
=> " use ","use,","use.",".use",".use."...
Once your list prepared, substitute your word by a key that you will replace
at the fly by a word to search.
=> " <w> ","<w>,","<w>.",".<w>",".<w>."...

Then in a loop treats the different cases with the solution of Craig Newman
likes this:

repeat with aWord in wordList
    repeat with aRegex in regexList
        put replaceText(aRegex,"<w>",aWord) into wholeWordForm -- replace
the "<w>" key in your pattern by the word that you need
        get fld "yourField"
        replace wholeWordForm with "<box>" & wholeWordForm & "</box>" in it
    end repeat
end repeat

set the htmltext of fld "yourField" to it

This is a first approach because it encloses the word with its possible
punctuation.


-Zryip TheSlug- wish you the best ! 8)


2009/12/15 Chris Sheffield <cmsheffield at gmail.com>

> Thanks, Craig. Unfortunately, this doesn't quite work either. If I were to
> run:
>
> replace "use" with "<box>use</box" in it
>
> It would not only replace the whole word "use", but also the string "use"
> in the word "used", so I would end up with something like "<box>use</box>d",
> which is not the desired result.
>
>
> On Dec 15, 2009, at 1:56 PM, DunbarX at aol.com wrote:
>
> > Right, thanks to all.
> >
> > Chris', your original regex question could better be addressed by:
> >
> > on mouseup
> >    get fld "yourField"
> >    replace yourtext with "<box>" & yourtext & "</box>" in it
> >    set the htmltext of fld "yourField" to it
> > end mouseup
> >
> > This would be fast, and easily extendable, since we are just crunching
> > data.
> >
> > Not that there isn't a good regex solution as well...
> >
> > Craig Newman
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