Bingo!
Thank you Mark, that's a really useful addition to my toolbox.
On Friday, September 29, 2017 at 7:46:54 PM UTC-5, Mark S. wrote:
>
> Thank you for the feedback.
>
> There was a bug in the javascript macro. I've attached a new version.
>
> Also, for your finder filter, you (probably) need to add the non-greedy
> operator ("?"). So your filter looks like:
>
> <$list filter='[tag[TestGroups]get[text]regexps[(?g)bk-ann
> ".+?"]regexps[bk-ann "(.+?)"]]' >
>
> HTH
> Mark
>
> On Friday, September 29, 2017 at 4:37:58 PM UTC-7,
> [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> Sorry I'm so late coming to this Mark, but I think I've found an issue...
>>
>> On Friday, August 25, 2017 at 9:18:05 AM UTC-5, Mark S. wrote:
>>>
>>> This version will return sub-groups for non-global searches. So in
>>> codacoder's example, this search:
>>>
>>> <$list filter='[tag[TestGroups]get[text]regexps[(?g)bk-ann
>>> ".+"]regexps[bk-ann "(.+)"]]' >
>>>
>>> will change this:
>>>
>>>
>>> <<bk-ann "Explain the use of the Tiddlywiki's macro system">>X
>>>>
>>>> and
>>>>
>>>> <<bk-ann "Explain the scope rules of Tiddlywiki
>>>> macros">>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Into
>>>
>>>
>>> Explain the use of the Tiddlywiki's macro system
>>>> Explain the scope rules of Tiddlywiki macros
>>>
>>>
>>> Notice that it takes 2 regexps filters to accomplish this (the first
>>> global one finds the items, the second trims them).
>>>
>>>
>> Understand that there may be zero or more (usually more than one) bk-ann
>> in any given tiddler. So, in the case of the example (if both are included
>> in one tiddler, I see only
>>
>> Explain the use of the Tiddlywiki's macro system
>>
>> IOW, once a match is found, the rest of the text is ignored. Is there a
>> way to make the regex less greedy and carry on to do the rest?
>>
>> Coda
>>
>
>
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