Hello Greg, On Wednesday, June 11, 2003 at 08:59 GMT -0500, a creature mimicking Greg Strong [GS] wrote:
<snip> GS> You were close on the AB entry, but not totally correct. After running GS> the 'Full Name' QT the output received was "Strong, Greg (Rr-Ml)". <snip> GS> I'll have to learn more about RegEx and macros to understand why GS> the 'M' is being picked up. That one is easy. The regexp in the initials QT looks for a dash, underscore, equals sign, at symbol, period or whitespace as the delimiters for a word. Additionally the initial must be a valid alphanumeric character (a-z, A-Z, 0-9). So the parentheses are treated as neither a word delimiter nor a valid initial, so the R is skipped. That leaves the M. I could add parentheses to the list of valid delimiters, but I don't think it is worthwhile. After all, how often does someone have a real part of their name in parentheses? Now you could argue that I should ignore anything in quotes, parentheses or some other marking scheme. I could try to do that, but it would add a tremendous level of complexity for very little gain. That and it would be a lot of work to try and get such an expression to be as robust as the current one. GS> Any better ideals on how to differentiate my different email accounts so GS> I don't mess up the macros? You could modify the full name QT to better suit your needs if you wanted. You don't *have* to pull the name from the address book. In fact, it might be preferable to *not* do that. That's personal taste. JA>> [1] Syntax may have changed slightly, but from a quick glance, they JA>> look the same. GS> Since Beta/8 things kind of went astray. So from posts to this list I've GS> made changes. Yes, but only in syntax. From my quick glance, the structure and logic appear to be unchanged. -- Thanks for writing, Januk Aggarwal Using The Bat! 1.63 Beta/10 under Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 1.63b10 | "Using TBBETA" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
