Ok Kai, no problems :)

So far, I wasn't able to figure out a regex/trick to solve that... If I get
something useful on this, I'll post to the list.

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2013/10/31 Kai Willadsen <[email protected]>

> On Oct 16, 2013 1:42 AM, "Fabio Pasini" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hello there!
> >
> > I'm trying to create a text filter in Meld 1.8.0,  to make those 3 lines
> below be evaluated as the same thing:
> >
> > CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER "OWNER"."TRIGGER_NAME"
> > CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER "TRIGGER_NAME"
> > CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER TRIGGER_NAME
> >
> > Is that feasible through "Edit"> "Meld Preferences">"Text Filters"
> option?
> >
> > For those 3 lineas above:
> > - OWNER and  TRIGGER_NAME can be any alphanumeric sequence;
> > - the entire sequence  CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER  is case insensitive;
> > - whitespaces can be spaces or tabs (or, if possible, the \s operator,
> as described in http://docs.python.org/2/howto/regex.html).
> >
> > I've already tried some patterns, but what I have done here is
> discarding too much stuff, and it is not generic enough.
> >
> > By the way, we have 17 environments to keep in sync here, with several
> teams updating them... and MELD is really helpful to find out whats
> changing :) !  Thanks a lot for all your work, folks!
>
> Sorry about the delayed response.
>
> I can't see a way to easily solve that problem with a filter. Meld's
> filters just remove text, they don't let you alter it... Otherwise it might
> work out.
>
> Enhancing the filter system is a long overdue job, and the filters
> themselves are very simple, but interactions with the comparison are nasty.
> However, I think that a replace-style filter would definitely be a sensible
> future project.
>
> Cheers,
> Kai
>
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