Hello Freeman, The reference I use is http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/regex/ECMAScript/ .
Greed is mentioned under ‘Quantifiers‘ HTH! JM > Le 9 juin 2020 à 15:55, Freeman Gilmore <freeman.gilm...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 6:51 AM Jacques Menu <imj-muz...@bluewin.ch> wrote: >> >> Hello Freeman, >> >>> Le 9 juin 2020 à 09:43, Freeman Gilmore <freeman.gilm...@gmail.com> a écrit >>> : >>> >>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 1:25 AM Michael Gerdau <m...@qata.de> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi! >>>> >>>> I find your description difficult to understand. Maybe you could provide >>>> an set of examples showing exactly what you wish to be modified into what. >>> Sorry, that is the problem I have when someone asks about what i am >>> doing or trying to do. For me I find it best to just ask what I want >>> to know. Arron as well as some others answer my question when I do >>> not include these kinds of detail they do add confusion. Arron on my >>> initial post did not understand what I was asking eathere. >>> >>> So I will try again. Say you have "Xsdfghjkl" If "x" is the first >>> character then replace the "g" if it exist with "Y" => "XsdYfhjkl"X >>> >>>> Apart from that your problem sounds as if it is trivial when using non >>>> greedy regular expressions. >>> >>> I do not know what this means: non greedy regular expressions? >> >> Greedy relates to how many characters are consumed by regular expressions >> when a match if found. >> >> You may need to learn more deeply about these to reach your goal. > > That definition helps. I use the Guile manual, the section Regular > Expressions is miss leading about what is there. I only went there > because Arron Hill told me about it And the introduction states "A > full description of regular expressions and their syntax is beyond the > scope of this manual"; and the URL goes nowhere. And I would guess > knowing what to read elsewhere that is consistent with the guile > version Lilypond uses may be a probleblen. I am open to a good ron > cryptic reference? > > Thank you, ƒg > >> >> JM
