Subj : RegExp Behaviour in FSE
To : Deuce
From : Angus McLeod
Date : Fri Mar 03 2006 01:51 am
Re: RegExp Behaviour in FSE
By: Deuce to Angus McLeod on Thu Mar 02 2006 12:45:00
> > To completely throw a spanner in the works: Quoting. How will you treat
> > something like
> >
> > > yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada Dumb
> > > User yada yada yada yada yada yada yada
> >
> > when searching for /Dumb User/ or even /Dubm\s/User/m ? ;-)
>
> Well, I can't say it seems completely intuitive, since your example would
> actually not have done what you said it would have. :-)
Huh? I *know* it won't match because of the > and the extra whitespace
characters. But should the quotation symbol be treated as whitespace
(thus matching with \s) when applying RE's to quoted text? ;-) Just
messing with ya....
> As for adding a soft CR, the spaces are *still* at the end of the line... so
> soft CRs were expanded to hard, you'd need /Dumb\s+User/ reather than
> /Dumb\sUser/ or /Dumb User/
Oh, OK, I didn't realise that you left the space at the end of the line.
But what I'm saying is that I should be able to match /Dumb$/m when Dumb
User is auto-wrapped at line end (like that). If I'm looking at the text
and "Dumb" is at the end of the line, I *ought* to be able to match
against it with /Dumb$/m withOUT having to guess whether there was an
invisible space after the word, or whether that line break occured
implicitly due to line-wrap or explicitly due to the press of the ENTER
key.
> As for quoting, I plan on using Deep Magic for it when possible.
> And possibly even rewrapping it to fit in the smaller width.
>
> x8> DE> The fix is simply to use the correcty flags in the regex... m or s a
> x8> DE> appropriate.
Hmmm.
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