Switch, Case and wild-cards?

Charles E Buchwald charles at buchwald.ca
Fri Dec 28 13:14:12 EST 2012


I learned to use regex by playing with the find and replace tools in BBEdit. (Now I use TextEdit, which also works well for this.)
And as I've noted in the LC Dictionary, I find this reference useful:
http://www.regextester.com/pregsyntax.html

- Charles

On 2012-12-28, at 11:26 AM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:

> Seriously though, I have this feeling that matchText and matchChunk are
> potentially very useful tools if only I could understand the syntax of
> regular expressions.  I've been to both web references mentioned in
> the dictionary and have a really hard time understanding them.
> 
> Does anyone have any references to using regular expressions, preferable
> with lots of examples?
> 
> Pete
> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net>wrote:
> 
>> Peter-
>> 
>> Thursday, December 27, 2012, 9:06:19 PM, you wrote:
>> 
>>>>> You mean regex doesn't make you run around babbling about purple
>> things?!
>>> You mean regex doesn't make you run around babbling about purple things?!
>> 
>> ...I suppose the next step is to make it recursive...
>> 
>> --
>> -Mark Wieder
>> mwieder at ahsoftware.net
>> 


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