Hallo Jan,
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:58:11 -0400 GMT (28/09/2000, 00:58 +0800 GMT),
Jan Rifkinson wrote:
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Your analysis is correct.
JR> Why do you put dbl quotes ["] around the entire %Quotestyle
JR> statement?
Because that's required (syntax).
BTW this RegEx is not my brain child alone, but many people on this
list helped me with it some time ago.
Thomas>> In your case it is the same as %OFName, but in my company, it isn't.
Thomas>> Point I'm making: you can use RegEx in %Quotestyle, and it still
Thomas>> works. :-)
JR> Jan responds: Thanks Thomas. I find this especially
JR> interesting as I am trying to figure out how to select a
JR> from "name" from selected text in a digest & I'm
JR> wondering if some expanded variation of the above macro
JR> can be used for this purpose.
You have to figure out what the text has in common all the time (hence
the term "regular expression"). Then try. It's fun.
JR> BTW, I figured out what I was doing wrong with the
JR> %QUOTESTYLE= & I thank you for that also. Although I
JR> reviewed the macro list from TB!Help before asking this
JR> questions of the list, I couldn't figure it out. I'm not
JR> a programmer; maybe that's a part of my problem.
If you're not a programmer, RegEx is very difficult. Being a
mathematician helps, though. ;-)
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