Sorry about that... hit the Send button too soon. The key to remember in MC (after 2.4.2 where PCRE was added) is the modifier "(?s)" which means to "treat the entire chunk of text as my string, ignoring newlines". So if you want to get the chunk from the beginning of the "W" in "Welcome" to the end ">" in "<!user-name>", you can use this:
-- I have your text snippet in field 1 on mouseUp local tStart,tEnd get matchChunk(fld 1,"(?s)(Welcome.*?<!user-name>)",tStart,tEnd) select char tStart to tEnd of fld 1 end mouseUp Hope this helps! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "andu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 6:15 AM Subject: regexp > I need some help with matchChunk(). Here's the problem, I need to parse > html pages for a certain chunk and replace it with an other. Unfortunately > I cant use the good old "replace x with y in z" because the chunk sometimes > is on one line other times on many. > Here's an example: > > <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Welcome > <!user-name> > > to our site</b></font> </p> > > I want to replace "Welcome <!user-name> to" with "This is", for example. > I've spent hours trying to find the right matchChunk() expression given I > know the first (Welcome) and last word (to) of the chunk but without > success, I can only get one of them at a time. Thanks in advance for any > suggestions. > > Regards, Andu Novac > _______________________________________________ > metacard mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard > _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
