Josiah, I am glad for your help, and marks - I need to jump into regex soon, but it seems to require a lot of rote learning - perhaps I can make a wiki for that?
In the case in question the three words can only be a-zA-Z What would I replace \w with for this outcome? Thank Tony On Sunday, July 15, 2018 at 10:40:20 AM UTC+10, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: > > Ciao TonyM & Mark S. > > Really interesting work. > > A few small non-consequential notes on the regex ... This is just for > interest. > > Marks' ... > > ^\w+?\.\w+?\.\w+?$ > > is perfectly serviceable. But it will work simpler too ... > > ^\w+\.\w+\.\w+$ > > ... The qualifying "?" that is to prevent "greedy" matches is not needed. > A greedy match here is fine. > > One issue is that \w is shorthand for the JS character class ... > > [a-zA-Z0-9_] > > This means IF you used, for instance, any accented character it would > break. > > A way round this would be to add the accented characters to an explicit > class. But every one would need explicitly adding. Easier would be to use , > instead of \w, a negative character class like [^\.] = its not a full-stop. > > The only problem with regex character classes in TW is they get a bit > baroque to use as they need square brackets so you can't do them directly > -- https://tiddlywiki.com/#regexp%20Operator > > Just thoughts > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/19cb0297-a7f5-47e1-af61-61378a7885fb%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
