Hello George,
Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 10:53 GMT +0300, was when inspiration
required George M. Menegakis [GMM] to compose:
GMM> This is exactly what I mean! The problem is that the quick template that
GMM> you kindly provided doesn't strip empty lines. It keeps quoting them.
The one in my last posting too? It stripped all blank lines here...
GMM> Basically what I wanted was is to compress 2 or more empty lines to one.
<snip>
GMM> I thought that it was not possible (using template "language") till I
GMM> saw that block quote did this.
My wrap template does this too. Just removing the macro that actually
wraps the text, find:
=====[Begin wrap_mod QT]=====
%REM='
Modified Multi-Paragraph wrapping routine using features from
TB 1.63b11
Written August 2003 by Januk Aggarwal
Notes:
1. This template can be used alone to wrap clipboard
contents or can be used as a wrapping engine by assigning
text to the variable, %_Wrap_Text, in the driver template.
'%-
%-
%IF:'%_Wrap_FirstTime'='':'%-
%___%IF:"%_Wrap_Text"="":"%_Wrap_Text(%Clipboard)"%-
%___%_Wrap_FirstTime="No"'%-
%-
%IF:'%-
%SetPattRegexp="(?is-m)[^\n]+"%-
%RegexpMatch(%_Wrap_Text)'<>'':'%-
%-
%SetPattRegexp="(?is-m)^(.*?)((\n((\w{0,5}(\>\s*)+)?\s*\n)+)(.*)\s*$|\z)"%-
%RegexpBlindMatch(%_Wrap_Text)%-
%-
%_Wrap_Paragraph_1(%Subpatt(1))%-
%_Wrap_Blank_Space(%Subpatt(3))%-
%_Wrap_Remainder_Of_Text(%Subpatt(7))%-
%-
%Quotes(%_Wrap_Paragraph_1)
>
%_Wrap_Text(%_Wrap_Remainder_of_Text)%-
%-
%QInclude(wrap_mod)'%-
=====[ End wrap_mod QT]=====
The part in your main template would be something like:
=====[Begin]=====
%_Wrap_Text="%Text"%-
%Qinclude="wrap_mod"%-
=====[ End ]=====
GMM> But as I said the syntax of templates is
GMM> confusing me. I know I should try to understand it (due its tremendous
GMM> power), but before doing this I should learn how to think in regex.
Well, the regex and the templates can be learned separately,
especially in the current betas. Obviously the regular expressions
give a huge amount of power, but you can still do a fair bit with
minimal knowledge of TB's regexps.
--
Thanks for writing,
Januk Aggarwal
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