Regular Expression question
Kenji Kojima
index at kenjikojima.com
Fri Mar 13 10:09:30 EDT 2009
Hi Ron,
Now I knew what the regex is. Japanese writing does not use separated
words. If your data is a kind of words list, you might use some parts
of this stack.
go stack url "http://www.kenjikojima.com/runrev/handbook/download/JpnSortStudy.rev
"
see "美術用語".
--
Kenji Kojima
http://www.kenjikojima.com/
On Mar 13, 2009, at 9:12 AM, Ron wrote:
> Hi Kenji, Mark,
>
> Thanks for your suggestions.
> Kenji, you are right about searching using the find command. I can
> search for Kanji, as you do in your stack.
> Mark, you are right about escaping the characters when I use regex.
> I've have been escaping the chars and that seems to work in the case
> where there are no reg expressions - only the kanji.
>
> My problem is identifying and converting the kanji in the regex
> string that I put into matchtext.
>
> for example: "love\w\w" finds among other things, loved, lovely,
> loves etc. Regex parses this expression fine so I can have the user
> input it directly. But if I use Kanji: "土.{1,10}水" it does not
> work.
> This is the kanji for land followed by a period followed by the
> match operator followed by the kanji for water. I'm looking for the
> first kanji separated from the second by 1 to 10 chars.
>
> It seems I need to let regex know I'm using kanji and there must be
> some way to do so, unless Rev does not support that.
>
> Thanks
> Ron
>
>
> On Mar 13, 2009, at 9:31 PM, Kenji Kojima wrote:
>
>> Ron,
>>
>> I made a Japanese search field before. I don't know what the regex
>> is, but the search field works in Japanese and English on Rev3.0.
>>
>> go stack url "http://www.kenjikojima.com/runrev/handbook/download/JpSearchFld.rev
>> "
>>
>> Try it,
>> --
>> Kenji Kojima
>> http://www.kenjikojima.com/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 13 mrt 2009, at 10:44, ron barber wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I'm trying to use regex for searching unicode text in Rev. The docs
>>>> say that Rev follows pcre rules and I've tried various
>>>> combinations or
>>>> \N, \x but unsuccessfully. Can someone offer a way to do this or
>>>> confirm that Rev does not support regex for unicode?
>>>>
>>>> I am working with utf 8 (Greek etc) and utf 16 (Japanese etc)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks so much,
>>>>
>>>> Ron
>>
>>
>>
>>
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