On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Alex Tweedly <a...@tweedly.net> wrote: > OK, I am NOT a regex expert, but ... > > wouldn't that give you other lines like > put tVar into myVar
No, because \w doesn't match white space chars like space and tab. > should it not be simply > ^put \w$ that would only work if you have something like put x put y put t as it is only matching a single word char > so that you don't get all the other put statements ... that "+" allows any > number (>=1) of words. That is where the misunderstanding is, \w is a word character, equivalent to [a-zA-Z0-9_], not a word, so to get a single word (variable name) that is equal to or longer than a single character you need \w+ > And even then, you will miss > if x = y then put tVar That is a good point and there are other examples where my basic suggestion would fail, but I was simply pointing out that there already exists a simple mechanism built into Find and Replace that is powerful and extremely useful and with a little tweaking would be able to quickly locate what you are looking for. Oh, and Ali's tip is very useful too! _______________________________________________ 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