Why No Built in GetMyIP call in LiveCode?

[J. Landman Gay]

On 6/10/11 8:21 PM, Jim Ault wrote:

> The () parens are telling the engine to capture any chars that meet the
> conditions inside and assign them to the first variable specified. In
> this case, it is 'retVal'
> If there were a second set of (), then those chars would be assigned to
> the second variable specified.


Good explantion, I like when regex gets explained. But what I don't get 
is how come the first set of parentheses aren't put into the variable:

   get matchText(tEthernetConfig,"(?s)inet (.*?) ",retVal)

The LC engine ignores the "(?s)". That's good and as it should be, but 
I'm not sure why.

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