AW: is find or offset with wildcards possible?

[Tiemo Hollmann TB]

Hello Charles,
as far as I have seen it, matchChunk and matchText only return true or false
and not an offset or position
Am I wrong?
Tiemo


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von Charles Warwick
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2016 11:01
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Betreff: Re: is find or offset with wildcards possible?

On 10/02/2016 7:10 pm, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:
> I have looked for a find or offset syntax with wildcards, to get 
> easily the offset of all links, like offset("~*#",myText,lastOffset), 
> but I only found the approach to loop thru the chars of the text and 
> get with offset the start and end tags, get the right pairs, what can 
> be tricky, and set the links.
>
> Did I oversee anything or isn't there a wildcard syntax for find or
offset?
I could be wrong, but I don't believe they support wildcards.

The matchChunk function supports using PCRE regular expressions and can
return the position of substrings that are matched.

You might be able to use it to achieve what you want.

Cheers,

Charles
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