Martin's solution worked wonderfully. I committed the change last night. A
check box was added for Regular Expressions that defaults to off.
Larry
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Larry Becker <becker.la...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm. Escaping every character sounds like it might be workable. I'll give
> it a try.
>
> Larry
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Martin Davis <mbda...@refractions.net>wrote:
>
>> Could you still use regex matching on the back end, but just internally
>> escape the raw string input to turn it into a pattern? I think this
>> should be possible.... maybe by simpling escaping every char in the
>> input string.
>>
>> Larry Becker wrote:
>> > 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
>> > <mailto: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>
>> > <mailto: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>>
>> > >> > <mailto: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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