Re: regexp

[andu]

--On Wednesday, January 08, 2003 09:11:05 -0600 Ken Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Sorry about that... hit the Send button too soon.

The key to remember in MC (after 2.4.2 where PCRE was added) is the
modifier "(?s)" which means to "treat the entire chunk of text as my
string, ignoring newlines". So if you want to get the chunk from the
beginning of the "W" in "Welcome" to the end ">" in "<!user-name>", you
can use this:

-- I have your text snippet in field 1
on mouseUp
  local tStart,tEnd
  get matchChunk(fld 1,"(?s)(Welcome.*?<!user-name>)",tStart,tEnd)

  select char tStart to tEnd of fld 1
end mouseUp

Hope this helps!

Thanks Ken, I knew there was something... The learning curve for metacard is very mild but endless. Scott makes sure that we age properly too ;-)

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

Regards, Andu Novac
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