[snip] Usually '$' is the end-of-string marker. '&' doesn't have any special meaning in regular expressions that I can think of. [/snip]
Ahhhhhhhh yes that's right, I'm always getting those 2 confused :D Must be some form of coding dyslexia :D Richard Lindsey. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Barton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 2:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: regular expression search and replace On 9/6/05, Richard Lindsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And I'd just like to add my \s* into that regex, because a lot of people > put a space between the opening parentheses and their text, like > REMOVE_BIT( ch->act, PLR_WHATEVER ), and so with the regex below, you Good point, didn't think about that. I hate those spaces. > then that should compensate for any amount of whitespace... also, should > the ampersand be escaped? I know it had to be in vi in order to work > correctly, and regexes generally use that as an end-of-string marker > similar to the beginning-of-string ^ marker... Just 2 additional cents Usually '$' is the end-of-string marker. '&' doesn't have any special meaning in regular expressions that I can think of. -- ROM mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe here ->>> http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom
