Search / replace

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Sat Feb 20 21:12:28 EST 2010


Igor de Oliveira Couto wrote:
> Mike, thank you very much for this pointer:
> 
> On 21/02/2010, at 5:28 AM, Mike Bonner wrote:
> 
>> If you want do the search/replace with regex, you can do similar to
>> this..
>> 
>> put replaceText(field "Field","(?<=\d)\[","-") into tTmp put
>> replaceText(tTmp,"(?<!\d)\[",empty) into tComplete
>> 
>> This does a look behind.
> 
> [...]
> 
> Someone should definitely add this to the User Guide - or at the very
> least one of us should make an entry about this in the Dictionary,
> under 'replaceText'. Pleeeeeease!
> 

I definitely kept a copy myself, it's very clever. It's a very specific 
implementation of regex though, so I'm not sure it would be useful for 
most people. But feel free to add it to the doc notes if you want, 
anyone can do that.

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