matchChunk to find fontNames

[Eric Chatonet]

Hi Claudi,

I would not use matchText but would go straight on with 2 repeat  
loops to parse the html text:
one with the fontNames: if tFont is in tText...
Another one with tag styles: if "<i>" is in tText...
Less, less elegant :-( but should do the job :-)

Best Regards from Paris,

Eric Chatonet.


Le 23 juin 05 à 00:29, Claudi Cornaz a écrit :

> I am trying to implement a text menu and need to find all the  
> fontNames
> and text attributes in the selectedChunk first to update my menu  
> and afterwards
> to handle the choice.
> As long as all the text has all the same attributes (bold / italic  
> etc) it's no problem
> but I need also to find all the attributes when it's mixed.
>
> I have been trying to get the instances of  <font face=" xxxx xxx -  
> xxx" [Size="yy"] [color="#ZZZZZZ"]>
> to extract all the parts like, the fontname, the size and the color  
> if applicable with matchChunk.
>
> I start to understand regex a little bit, but I still did not got  
> it to work just right.
>
> Here is what I got sofar to get the whole font face tag:
>   matchChunk(tText, "(<font face=\"[A-z\- ]+\">)", tStart, tEnd)
>
> Some fontNames have spaces or - in theire name but if I add them to  
> the regex like in the above example
> the end goes on to far like: Stone Sans OS ITC TT-Bold"  
> color="#FF0000">zeker</font> . . .   . . . etc
>
> I tried to change the regex part with a $ at the end so it should  
> stop at the ">" char.
>   matchChunk(tText, "(<font face=\"[A-z\- ]+\">$)", tStart, tEnd)
>
> Well, no dice, now it finds nothing no more so obviously I am doing  
> something wrong.
> How should this be done?
>
> Sugestions for a better way to find all the style runs are of  
> course very welcome as well,
> since I just "thought" of this way to do it, in fact after quite  
> some thought this came as "best" solution
> to my mind,  but wether this is the best way to do it, well  
> probably not.
>
> Anyway  much thanks in advance and all help appreciated


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