regex/matchtext question

[Klaus Major]

Hi Jim,

looks like you missed my second post, I already found the solution to  
my problem.

> Difficulty one is that '[' is a special character in regular  
> expressions and
> escaping can make using them even more confusing.  This is also true  
> of the
> filter command.

Anyway, thanks for you post, will take a deeper look in a quiet  
moment ;-)

> --this function seems to work
> --the catch is that the "[" and "]" are special chars
> --recall the merge("") function
>
> function getList dertext, derdelimiter, derdelimiter2
>  put "<<,>>,{,},[,],{{,}},[[,]]" into oppositeDelm
>  if not(derdelimiter is among the items of oppositeDelm)
>  then     put "::" into derdelimiter
>  if not(derdelimiter2 is among the items of oppositeDelm)
>  then    put "::"  into derdelimiter2
>  replace cr with numtochar(3) in dertext  --all on one line now
>
>  if ( derdelimiter <> derdelimiter2 ) is true then
>    replace derdelimiter with (cr & derdelimiter) in dertext
>    replace derdelimiter2 with ( derdelimiter2 & cr ) in dertext
>    if "]" is in dertext then -- we are using brackets
>      replace ( derdelimiter2 & cr ) with ("^^" & cr) in dertext
>      filter dertext with ( "*^^" )
>      replace "^^" with ( derdelimiter2 ) in dertext  --we are done
>    else
>      filter dertext with ( "*" & derdelimiter 2 )    --we are done
>    end if
>  else   --using "::" symetrical double-delimiters
>    replace ":" with (":" & cr & ":") in dertext
>    replace "::" with empty in dertext
>    filter dertext with (":*:")
>    replace ":" with "::" in dertext    --we are done
>  end if
>  return dertext
> end getList
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas

Best

Klaus

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