Re: a regexp question

[Peter Steiner]

On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:21:25 -0700, Jason Thompson wrote:

JT> You'll see that my signature looks like this:

JT> Jason Thompson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
JT> PGP Key ID: 0x3084BEC4 [The Bat! v1.46c]

JT> As you can see, the TB version has several spaces before it to make it
JT> appear "right justified". Since I keep up with the beta versions of
JT> TB, the %thebatversion string is frequently changing in length, so
JT> every time it changes I have to edit the number of spaces in my
JT> signature template.

JT> My question is, can TB do this work for me with a regexp?

I have found a way. Perhaps there are other more elegant ideas, but i
could not think of them...

%SETPATTREGEXP=" {5}\[.{13}\]| {4}\[.{14}\]| {3}\[.{15}\]"
%REGEXPMATCH="[The Bat! %THEBATVERSION]"
   spaces (enough of them!)

The key is that you combine several subpattern in the form
" {5}\[.{13}\]" (without quotes) for every possible length of your
version string. The first number is the number of digits it takes (5
in this example) when the string inside the brackets is 13 characters
long.

Make sure that in the REGEXPMATCH you put enough spaces for the
biggest variant (in my example '5').

My RE above is only a short example and works only for three different
lengths, but you should be able to expand it to any desired length.

HTH

Peter
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Re: a regexp question

[Steve Lamb]

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Friday, September 15, 2000, 11:21:25 AM, Jason wrote:
> My question is, can TB do this work for me with a regexp? The number

AFAIK, no.  Regexp is pattern matching and string replacement but does not
have such capabilities.

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a regexp question

[Jason Thompson]

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Hello everyone...

You'll see that my signature looks like this:

Jason Thompson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PGP Key ID: 0x3084BEC4 [The Bat! v1.46c]

As you can see, the TB version has several spaces before it to make it
appear "right justified". Since I keep up with the beta versions of
TB, the %thebatversion string is frequently changing in length, so
every time it changes I have to edit the number of spaces in my
signature template.

My question is, can TB do this work for me with a regexp? The number
of spaces that must be inserted can be calculated with very simple
math:

18 - (length of %thebatversion string)

However, I understand very little of regexps at the moment... Can
anyone think of a way for me to work this out? TIA

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