REGEX and Livecode

[Kay C Lan]

Read the LC Dictionary entry for matchText. Regex IS already implemented in
LC, if you care to use it. More importantly to you, as the dictionary
states, it is PCRE library compatible, which to me means it is OS agnostic.

All you need to do is learn the syntax (admittedly not trivial for some of
the problems you have posed - and possibly not possible) and then sit back
and let LC do the rest.

HTH

On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>wrote:

> Sorry chaps to start a new thread on this, but, somehow lost track of the
> last one :(
>
> Having 'swallowed my pride' and accepted that there MIGHT be more to REGEX
> than
> pattern matching, as I outlined in earlier postings, I had a look at the
> URLs various people on the
> Use-List provided:
>
> Finding this one fairly thought provoking: http://www.regular-**
> expressions.info/quickstart.**html<http://www.regular-expressions.info/quickstart.html>
>
> My thoughts were provoked in 2 ways:
>
> 1. REGEX seems useful.
>
> 2. How does one use REGEX within Livecode (and, my inevitable rider;
> cross-platform) ?
>
> Because REGEX expressions do NOT seem to be written in whatever name
> the RR/LC language is going by at the moment (HyperTalk, MetaTalk,
> RevTalk, Transcript,
> Revolution. Livecode ???).
>
> Now, as a mono-maniac for Livecode (i.e. I don't use any other programming
> languages
> on a regular basis) I am only going to go to the bother (and there does
> seem to be quite a bit of that)
> to learn REGEX if:
>
> 1. It can be, somehow, integrated into Livecode.
>
> 2. It will serve me better than the way I am doing things at the moment
> (pace earlier postings).
>
> Call me "an awkward sausage" if you will; but, I suspect that those
> thoughts may, in part at least,
> reflect the thoughts of a lot of the "silent masses" who would like to do
> all sorts of jolly data
> sorting and/or modification with Livecode.
>
> Further to this, I would like to point out this:
>
> http://lessons.runrev.com/s/**lessons/m/4603/l/44092-**working-with-text<http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/4603/l/44092-working-with-text>
>
> [ admittedly it does not, directly, refer to unicodeText fields; but that,
> as I have already found out,
> can be dealt with comparatively easily ]
>
> which makes me wonder why one needs to go and "bang one's head against the
> wall" of REGEX.
>
> Richmond.
>
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