I wish it did, but replaceText doesn't support back references. The
parameters at the end are treated as literals, whether as actual quoted
literals or variables containing a value.
If there isn't a feature request for it, there should be.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On December 14, 2021 6:03:12 PM Devin Asay via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Does the replaceText() function allow the use of backreferences to retain
groupings of text between matches. For example, if I have some text like this:
<p><span style=‘cruft'>Good stuff here.</span></p>
I want to end up something like this:
<h1>Good stuff here.”</h1>
In BBedit I can search for <p><span style=“cruft”>(.*)</span></p> and
replace it with <h1>\1</h1> and it preserves the run of text designated by
parentheses.
(I know, I can get more fancy on matching the runs of html tags, but I’m
mainly interested in retaining the text, not in regex madness.)
In LC this does not work:
put replaceText(myText,"<p><span
style=“cruft”>(.*)</span></p>”,”<h1>\1</h1>”) into myText
I just end up with <h1>\1</h1>, when I want <h1>Good stuff here.</h1>
Can replaceText even do this?
- Devin
Devin Asay
Office of Digital Humanities
Brigham Young University
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