Bruce, Guilty. I'm a bit of a regex geek, but I also tend to use advanced expressions (like positional assertions), even when simpler ones would do the job, just to stay in practice. You'll find these things become second nature if you use them all the time, even if they look like gibberish at first glance.
Also, while the documentation that comes with the PCRE library (which you can download and install for free) is very extensive and useful, I probably learned most of what I know about regular expressions just from using BBEdit and reading the User Manual. The "Searching with Grep" chapter is a clear and succinct guide to the most useful patterns and concepts, and the Find/Replace dialog provides a great environment to practice using them painlessly. On Monday, April 29, 2019 at 8:49:29 PM UTC-4, Bruce Linde wrote: > > now you’re just showing off... guess i’m going to have to stare at the > docs a bit to make sure i grok that.... 8-) > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
