hmm. I'm not sure if that will work for me as I don't want to try to alter
the text. I just want to ignore ";" within quotes hence why doing a look
ahead / look behind may be an answer.
I will keep your approach in mind though as it could work if I have to go
down that road.
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Peter Boughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am trying to find ";" ONLY at the end of a string and not within (like
> within single or
> > double quotes).
>
> > I don't think so as we also want to catch multiple variables being set to
> one line (should have put this in the original post):
> > var1 = 1; var2 = 2;
>
> So end of string is irrelevant?
> What you actually want to find is all semi-colons excluding those within
> quotes?
>
> In which case, just replace/remove quoted values first and then search
> for any semi-colons.
>
> Text = REReplace ( Text , '"([^"]|"")+"' , '{quotedstring}' , 'all')
>
> (and same again with single/double inverted)
>
>
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