On 10/25/05 6:05 AM, "Marielle Lange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Many thanks for the information. As you probably realized, the > problem is not that I am unfamiliar with PCRE (I have used it for a > long times, in PHP), the problem is more that I never realized that > revolution was now correctly implementing PCRE. Actually, I didn't realize that, but thanks for making me aware of it. :-) > Sure, there is this mention at the very bottom of the matchtext > function. "Changes to Transcript: The regular expression format > changed in version 2.0 to use PCRE compatible syntax". But when I > tried the PCRE syntax in version 2.1, they were not working properly. > I read that in version 2.5 or 2.6 regular expressions had been > improved but there is no mention of PCRE in the "regular expression > syntax" popup and examples haven't changed. > > So how was I supposed to know that this has been fixed? This is a longstanding issue with RunRev which only in the most recent (2.6.1) version has there been visible effort: knowing what's been fixed between versions of Rev. Unfortunately the only way to know is to try it again each release and see if it works... <sigh> > Back to the idea of a community documentation system, compare the > ease of reading and information finding for: > http://www.pcre.org/man.txt > and > http://uk.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.modifiers.php > > Aren't the user contributed notes very handy too? Wouldn't doc on the > web contribute to revolution visibility? Honestly, what I do use > php.net for is for stealing ideas on how to code things... sometimes > I translate this to revolution. A good wiki with rev doc could get > other scripters very curious about revolution's extraordinary > capabilities. Oh, I totally agree! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution