On Sun 1-Jun-03 5:11am-0400, Carsten Th�nges wrote:
> * Bill McCarthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> The key is knowing what macro represents the clip board. I couldn't
>> find it.
> %CLIPBOARD
Thanks for responding. That was sure simple. But now that I have you
on the line <g> ...
Although I'm still a rookie WRT TB and PCRE, I'm fairly familiar with
regex ala Vim and SED.
I was playing around today with the Add Reference macro. The task of
adding the reference looks easy. But removing the references has been
surprisingly difficult.
Let's start off with a simplifying assumption. Let's assume that
either there is no In-Reply-To or Reference lines OR they are both
present with the Reference lines immediately following the In-Reply-To
line.
To just remove them, I thought this would work:
%SetPattRegExp="(?is)((.*\n)%-
In-Reply-To:.*?\nReferences:.*?\n%-
(?:\s.*?\n)*)%-
|((.*\n))%-
(.*)\n"%-
%RegExpBlindMatch="%Headers"%SubPatt="2"%SubPatt="4"%SubPatt="5"
%Text
If they exist, SubPatt 2 contains the header text before the
In-Reply-To line as expected. However SubPatt 5 is empty.
I pasted the header to Vim editor session and typed the command:
s/\v((\_.*\n)In-Reply-To:.*\nReferences:.*\n%(\s.*\n)*)|((\_.*\n))(\_.*)/\2\4\5
This worked perfectly.
Let's compare the regex portion of the two. First a brief explanation
of the differences between PCRE and Vim's regex. The `\v` means "Very
magic" and permits writing, for example, parens without escaping them.
Vim's `.` does not match `\n`. PCRE's `.*` is like Vim's `\_.*`.
PCRE's `(?:` is like Vim's '%(`.
Now here they are next to each other with PCRE first:
((.*\n)In-Reply-To:.*?\nReferences:.*?\n(?:\s.*?\n)*)|((.*\n))(.*)
((\_.*\n)In-Reply-To:.*\nReferences:.*\n%(\s.*\n)*)|((\_.*\n))(\_.*)
I believe these should behave identically but they don't. TB is
excluding all header lines after the Reference lines. The Vim search
/ replace, works as intended.
Any idea with the PCRE macro is failing?
--
Best regards,
Bill
"Commonly, those who have professed the strongest motives of love of a
God have demonstrated the deepest hatred toward human joy and liberty."
[E. Haldeman-Julius, "The Meaning Of Atheism"]
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