Sheri will probably not read this for a couple of weeks (have a nice leave!) but this could be of interest to the other RE freaks who hang around here:
Sheri wrote: > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/power- > pro/files/Documentation/pcrepattern.zip Right, I remember that file now... do you think I should distribute this or possibly the whole HTML doc with the plugin? I'm not very good at documentation (especially when I'm not even trying) and I can't for the life of me guess what docs people would find useful. The doc you adapted seemed too technical and largely irrelevant at first glance. I wish I could point people to a more generic and newbie-friendly introduction to regular expression as well as a more concise PCRE reference for the people who know what they're doing. > It certainly raises some questions, like how can we access named > captured substrings? The interface I'm using doesn't support this. My plugin isn't supposed to be a PCRE wrapper but rather a generic regular expression library wrapper. In fact, I didn't link it to PCRE at first (that was Luciano's idea). I don't like the idea of switching to the PCRE interface in order to implement all sorts of fancy PCRE-specific features and I hate to think about how much of the code I'd have to throw out... you'd have to do a whole lot of convincing to change my mind. Of course, I'm not stopping anyone from doing such a plugin. Also, I gather that the DLL plugin is getting better and better... so you don't necessarily need a wrapper to use a library anymore. > Also, PCRE supports Callouts, which would be a way of inserting some > PowerPro script language in the middle of a replacement clause if > implemented. It would enable easy counting of global replacements, > changing the case of replacement text, etc. Same issue here. Could you provide a usage example where callouts would actually be useful? Counting replacements is easy enough to do without callouts for example. Attention: PowerPro's Web site has moved: http://www.ppro.org Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/power-pro/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/power-pro/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
