try studying the "|" symbol, which is OR There are many ways of using it with strings and substrings and patterns.
Jim Ault Las Vegas On 5/4/07 10:41 AM, "ron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Regex question for use in matchtext > > I want to find word A followed by word B. (quickly) > So: > put "this is my big dog called cat." into thetext > put "my.{0,5}dog" into reg > > And > put matchtext(thetext,reg) > returns true because I use a period so it is counting characters but I > need it to count words. I have tried various combinations of \b and \w > to no avail. > > Something like : > put "my([^ ]* ){0,5}dog" into reg > works but only for words followed by spaces, not punctuation for > example. These could be included but surely there is a more elegant and > faster way? > > Can someone help me out with this? > > > BTW, is it true that setting the wholematches to true and using > wordoffset only returns 'words' that are followed by a space? So that > in the example sentence above, 'cat' is not found because it is > followed by a period? Is this correct? > > > Thanks > Ron > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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