Yes, but it uses the PCRE syntax <http://www.pcre.org>. You should use $1, $2 etc instead of \1, \2, etc. (has bitten me too in the past).
Christiaan On 28 Jul 2007, at 1:33 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: > I just tried to do a find&replace operation with regular expressions > > find: ([^\,]+), (^\/) > replace with: \2 \1 > > which should basically look for certain entries in the shortauthor > field and change the order of their first and second names. > However, while the "find" part works fine BibDesk will actually do > the substitution with the numbers "2" and "1" and not interpret \2 > as the value of the content of the second parir of parentheses (and > \1 accordingly). Cant the replace-field understand reg exps or did I > miss something? > > alex > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
