Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but can't you just do replace "/Users/hawk/bk_clients/" with empty in myVariable and do it all at once with no regex?
-- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Sep 20, 2014, at 4:02 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > You could change your shell call, and use sed inline to strip what you > don't want before sending it back to LC > Since I don't know how you're generating the list, i'm using find to do it > on .mov files > Quote the whole string, use a pipe to sed with the -e switch, surround the > string for sed with single quotes. escape slashes with a backslash. also > escape . with a backslash (necessary in my case since i'm using find from > the current dir. If find was "find / -name...", or a full path to the > start location, it wouldn't be necessary to have the preceeding . > The following example, finds all .mov files starting in the defaultfolder, > and removes /skyDrive/ from the beginning. Replaces it with nothing (hence > the // at the end) > > put shell("find . -name *.mov | sed -e 's/^\.\/skyDrive\///'") into tDat > > On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Peter Haworth <p...@lcsql.com> wrote: > >> You might try (?m) to switch on multiline mode at the start of your regex. >> I'm pretty sure that won't work though. LC makes you use a repeat loop to >> go through each line and issue the replaceText() against each one. >> >> Hope that Thierry chimes in with a workaround for this - he's the LC regex >> King. >> >> Pete >> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> >> Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and >> SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html> >> >> On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Dr. Hawkins <doch...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I have a variable with: >>> >>> /Users/hawk/bk_clients/blue aardvark/blue_aardvark____001.dhbk >>> /Users/hawk/bk_clients/pink panther/pink_panther_____001.dhbk >>> /Users/hawk/bk_clients/super chicken/super_chicken____005.dhbk >>> /Users/hawk/bk_clients/test5/test5____________001.dhbk >>> >>> which was obtained with a shell command and ls on OSX >>> >>> Using replaceText() to replace ^/Users/hawk/bk_clients/ with empty, I get >>> >>> blue aardvark/blue_aardvark____001.dhbk >>> /Users/hawk/bk_clients/pink panther/pink_panther_____001.dhbk >>> /Users/hawk/bk_clients/super chicken/super_chicken____005.dhbk >>> /Users/hawk/bk_clients/test5/test5____________001.dhbk >>> >>> That is, the ^ is only being applied to the variable as a whole, rather >>> than to each line. >>> >>> Does this have to do with how livecode and OSX delimit lines? >>> >>> -- >>> Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. >>> (702) 508-8462 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode