Yes, Eclipse has that option, however it would be much more difficult to
program without using the pattern matcher. It would basically revert to a
simple exact match string comparison.
Larry
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Martin Davis <mbda...@refractions.net>wrote:
> Is it worth having an option to choose plain text or regex? Some text
> editors do this. That way if a search string contains some of the
> (numerous) special regex chars, the user doesn't have to escape
> everything in sight.
>
> M
>
> Michael Michaud wrote:
> > Larry Becker a écrit :
> >
> >>> @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".
> >>
> > Of course, I didn't think of explaining regex syntax in the sidebar, but
> > just mentionning that regex syntax can (or must ?) be used in the
> > textfield so that users are aware that they can use or learn how to use
> > this powerful syntax.
> >
> > Michaël
> >
> >> Larry
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Michael Michaud
> >> <michael.mich...@free.fr <mailto: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>
> >> > <mailto: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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