Because LC can't do two things at once.

Peter Haworth pete at lcsql.com
Sun Feb 22 15:44:19 EST 2015


Whoops, misspelled Thierry's name, should be Douez

On Sun Feb 22 2015 at 12:43:28 PM Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:

> Just discovered that the King of regex/Livecode, Thierry Doux, provided an
> update to the PCRE library used by LC in version 6.5.0 which included many
> new features including more Unicode options than I outlined earlier.
>
> It updated the PCRE library from 6.7 to 8.3 which sounds like a huge
> upgrade and includes many features not previously available.
>
>
> On Sun Feb 22 2015 at 7:18:32 AM Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 5:59 AM, Michael Doub <mikedoub at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > http://www.regular-expressions.info/charclasssubtract.html  -- great
>> > tutorials and lots of examples
>> > https://regex101.com  -- my favorite testing engine, I love the way it
>> > explains what is actually going on
>> > http://www.regexr.com  -- a whole library of interesting examples in
>> the
>> > community area.
>> >
>> > It should be noted that only regex101.com gives you the option to
>> choose
>> the flavour of regex to test. Most online regex sites use JavaScript yet
>> LC
>> uses the PCRE regex Library so it is possible on other sites that regex
>> examples may not give the same results within LC.
>>
>> If planning to use regex within LC I strongly recommend using
>> regex101.com
>> and selecting pcre(php) from the top left 3 options.
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