On 2024-06-29 20:29, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 20:18:02 +0100, mick.crane wrote:
Oh, I see what the question was.
There is "use regular expressions", "use multi line matching" in Geany
I'm not very good at regular expressions.
I'd probably do it 3 times
"search for" <span class="verse" id="V(...)">
"search for" <span class="verse" id="V(..)">
"search for" <span class="verse" id="V(.)">
There's more than one regular expression syntax, so the first step is
to figure out which *kind* of regular expression you're writing.
In a Basic Regular Expression (BRE), you can write "one to three
digits" as:
[[:digit:]]\{1,3\}
In an Extended Regular Expression (ERE), you'd remove the backslashes:
[[:digit:]]{1,3}
Some people would use [0-9] instead of [[:digit:]]. [0-9] should work
in any locale I'm aware of, but is theoretically less portable than
[[:digit:]]. If you're actually doing this by typing a regex into an
editor, then [0-9] might be preferred because it's easier to type. If
you're writing a program, you should probably go with [[:digit:]].
Ta,
I'd had a quick look.
the regular expression thing looks to do one character at a time.
<span class="verse" id="V ( now they all match this next character might
be a 0 or a 9, this next character might be a 0 or a 9 or not there at
all, this next character might be a 0 or a 9 or not there at all ) now
check this bit ">
I couldn't see how to do a wild card and if it didn't exist.
