Help with Regex (was Re: Switch, Case and wild-cards?)

[Peter Haworth]

Thanks James and Mike.  I am on a Mac and I think have TextWrangler
installed somewhere  so I can take a look at that.  The plugin is RegEx
Builder, right Mike?

The video tutorials I mentioned are really good since they are very
interactive and use lots of examples.  I already know how to validate an
email address and an ip address... not that I need to do either of those
things but the examples that show how to do it and explain it are really
useful.

Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>


On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> The regex builder plugin in LC is pretty handy too and can help you work
> things out in lc itself.  You can also be pretty sure of it works in the
> builder, it will work in LC (though in all things, YMMV)
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 3:07 PM, James Hale <james at thehales.id.au> wrote:
>
> > Pete asked:
> > "Does anyone have any references to using regular expressions, preferable
> > with lots of examples?"
> >
> > If you are using a Mac i suggest getting yourself a copy of BBedit or its
> > free sibling "TextWrangler".
> > I have never been much for using terminal commands and the like as I
> > always preferred the Mac GUI so when it came to text manipulation I
> sought
> > out easier tools. Nisus was my first taste of using regex with its token
> > substitutions but when it when in to abeyance for a while I turned to
> > BBedit.
> > It allows the use of grep ( a command line regex tool) in its find and
> > replace dialog and also does find and replace across multiple files. It's
> > manual provides a good introduction to what you can do with regex, it is
> > blindingly fast and a really easily way to try out different expressions.
> > I found it invaluable when I wrote a web-scrapping app to provide a back
> > end to my DVD collection many years ago. I still have times when I need
> to
> > do a lot of text manipulation and will inevitably turn to BBedit's regex
> > prowess to do the heavy lifting.
> > As for references, there are lots on the web and O'Reilly have a couple
> of
> > good books.
> > But BBEDIT (or TextWrangler) will provide an easily accessible interface
> > into using regex and trying out different things.
> >
> > James
> >
> >
> >
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