Re: accessible regular epxression app for the mac?

2013-05-31 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Thanks for the suggestion. I was using grep to practice on files in the command line, but didn't think CAT had it. Will be trying this out Cheers Light has no value without darkness Mob: +61 (0)410732547 Skype: Shainobi1 twitter: http://www.twitter.com/triple7 This message is

accessible regular epxression app for the mac?

2013-05-30 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi all, As mentioned in the subject line, does anyone know of an accessible regular expression practice tool, desktop app or other? Really keen on practicing this very useful tool. Best regards, Yuma Light has no value without darkness Mob: +61 (0)410732547 Skype: Shainobi1 twitter:

Re: accessible regular epxression app for the mac?

2013-05-30 Thread Chris Blouch
Could you just practice using the command line in terminal? For example you could make a test text file called 'bob' and then use sed to run some regex substitution like this: cat test | sed 's/And/Dan/g' which would replace all the instances of 'And' in the output of the cat command with

Re: accessible regular epxression app for the mac?

2013-05-30 Thread Barry Hadder
Hey Yuma, Best thing to do is play around with sed or find. In terminal, you can type man find to learn how to use it. A good sed tutorial is at: http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html. You can also type man re_format at the terminal to learn regular expression syntax. On May 30, 2013, at