On Jun 27, 2004, at 11:36 AM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > I have trouble getting used to Regex. That huge volume of Perl man is > not exactly easy to read for non native English speaker (excuses, > excuses...).
You might find Friedel's regex book easier. It's slimmer and, I think, clearer. > But I was just interested in (\s|\S). To me, it looks contradiction. > How does this work? It means whitespace or non-whitespace, in other words, any character. > One another question is that does AppleScript take Regex? Regex is not built-in. There's an OSAX that adds it to AppleScript: <http://www.lazerware.com/software.html> but I think it doesn't work on OS X. -- Michael Tsai <http://www.c-command.com>
