Hi
On Monday 11 November 2013 at 1:38:14 PM, in <mid:489758458.20131111073...@charter.net>, Jack S. LaRosa wrote: > I'm probably the last person to attempt to give you an > answer but I wonder if it's possible to write a REGEXP > (Regular Expression) to do what you want. In other > words, write some sort of "copy and paste" expression > which then theoretically shouldn't have any > restrictions on character symbols. Unfortunately I have > zero experience with REGEXPs and haven't a clue about > how to even write one and actually use it. I agree it looks like the sort of thing Regular Expressions can do: match any symbol from a class or list so that it can be deleted or replaced, and match any character that is preceded by a 50-character string so that it can be deleted. I'm no use here: my sole experience of Regular Expressions was to very slightly modify an Excel macro I found on the internet, when I needed to remove non-alphanumeric characters from a spreadsheet cell's contents to use in a mail merge document - the matching used regular expressions. (Anything matched by this pattern [^A-Z,^a-z,^0-9,^&,^(,^)] gets replaced by an empty string.) Try TB!' help file - it actually contains quite a bit of verbiage on RegExp, most of which I struggle to understand. Also, some of the examples at [1] and [2] may give some food for thought regarding what to actually do with your regular expression when you have the pattern matching sussed out. [1] <http://silverstones.com/thebat/samples.html> [2] <http://cgi.silverstones.com/library.php> -- Best regards MFPA mailto:expires2...@ymail.com Life is a holiday. In the same way that glass is a liquid. Using The Bat! v4.0.38 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 ________________________________________________ Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
