----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Karlsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "REALbasic NUG" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 10:27 PM
Subject: RegEx searching
Hi,
Is there a way to get RegEx to give the character position of a result as
instr do? I've played with SubExpressionStartB but it only gives byte
positions and that's not enough to select a word in an editfield if
there's umlauts.
You could combinate a call to SubExpressionString() (class RegExMatch) with
a call to InStr(), which accepts an optional parameter to say from which
position to start the search.
question 2:
is
rx.SearchPattern = "(\W)" + search + "(\W)"
the best pattern to find a word?
I would rather use "rx.SearchPattern = search", which does the same thing
without to be time wasting. If you want then to be sure to match a complete
word, then I would use "rx.SearchPattern = '\s' + search + '\s'", or a
better "rx.SearchPattern = '\b' + search + '\b'".
--
~Kiam
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