Matchtext for multiple words

John Craig jc at spl21.net
Wed Nov 29 18:57:46 EST 2006


Just experimaented with;
"(?is)\b(cat|dinosaur|dog)\b.*\b(?!\1)(cat|dinosaur|dog)\b"

and got some success - further investigation needed.

:-)

J. Landman Gay wrote:
> Sorry if this comes through twice, I'm having trouble sending to the 
> list.
>
> I need a matchtext/regex that will tell me if all supplied words exist 
> in a block of text, regardless of their order, and ignoring carriage 
> returns.
>
> For example, see if all these words:  dog dinosaur cat
>
> exist in this text:
>
> "The purple dinosaur inadvertently stepped on the cat.<cr>
> The white dog howled."
>
> Should return true. Is there such a thing?
>




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