Search / replace

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Sat Feb 20 15:09:52 EST 2010


Mike Bonner wrote:
> If you want do the search/replace with regex, you can do similar to this..
> 
>    put replaceText(field "Field","(?<=\d)\[","-") into tTmp
>    put replaceText(tTmp,"(?<!\d)\[",empty) into tComplete
> 
> This does a look behind.

Amazing, thank you. I knew there had to be a way to do this but my regex 
skills aren't good enough. Very nice!

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