>@Larry : I think that the use of regexes should be mentionned in the
>user interface of your search tool
>One reason is that the user will have to escape regex metacharacter if
>he wants to make a simple search on (, [ ,*...

I agree.  I was just intimidated by the complexity of explaining this in a
sidebar. :-)  Perhaps it would be enough to list the "special characters".

Larry

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Michael Michaud <michael.mich...@free.fr>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> For a one page cheatsheet, look at
> http://www.addedbytes.com/download/regular-expressions-cheat-sheet-v1/pdf/
> or
> http://www.omicentral.com/cheatsheets/JavaRegularExpressionsCheatSheet.pdf
>
> for a full site dedicated to regex :
> http://www.regular-expressions.info/
>
> note : regex is also available in OJ's simple query plugin
> ...and in postgresql (operator ~)
>
> @Larry : I think that the use of regexes should be mentionned in the
> user interface of your search tool
> One reason is that the user will have to escape regex metacharacter if
> he wants to make a simple search on (, [ ,*...
>
> Michaël
>
>
> Larry Becker a écrit :
> > That's it.  I've looked for a better (more user oriented) reference,
> > but never found one.
> >
> > Larry
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Martin Davis <mbda...@refractions.net
> > <mailto:mbda...@refractions.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     Perhaps
> >
> >     http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html
> >
> >     ??
> >
> >     Stefan Steiniger wrote:
> >     >
> >     >> By the way, since it uses the Java pattern matcher, Search All
> >     >> Attributes supports many different meta-characters to control
> >     the search
> >     >> such as ^ to match the start of a line and $ to match the end.
> >     >>
> >     > oha..interesting.. how to get to know these chars?
> >     > is there a table?
> >     >
> >     > stefan
> >     >
> >     >
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