Thanks Mark S.
VERY helpful illustration!
Has anyone ever asked on GH to add ability to use Regex capture groups
directly in filters?
They are very useful as you are able to define in a regex exactly what you
need back. In effect they
could do your solution in, basically, one move.
Just wondering
TT
Mark S. wrote:
>
> There are no core tools for extracting sections identified by regular
> expressions directly. Instead you
> have to apply various levels of splitting, identifying, extracting
> (sometimes using nth operator). The actual
> separator gets thrown away -- the opposite of what would be convenient for
> extracting text.
>
> So, if there were macros in tiddler test1, then this works (in my test) :
>
> <$list
> filter="[[test1]get[text]splitregexp[\n]regexp[^\\define]splitregexp[^\\define]!is[blank]]"
>
> variable="splitme">
> {{{ [<splitme>splitregexp[\(.*?\)]first[]] }}}<br/></$list>
>
>
> So stuff gets split into lines. Then matching lines are identified. Then
> split. Compressed. Used in {{{ }}} where they are split again by
> (parameter), but this time only the part before the split is saved.
>
>
>
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