Thanks Brian I didn't realise that was what was meant in the dictionary
description! Now you've clarified things I can see how it should work, and it
does!
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> 1. PlayStore App Bundles. (Ralph DiMola)
> 2. matchChunk & matchText broken? (pr...@reidit.co.uk)
> 3. Re: matchChunk & matchText broken? (Brian Milby)
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> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 07:35:23 -0400
> From: Brian Milby <br...@milby7.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: Re: matchChunk & matchText broken?
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> If the regularExpression includes a pair of parentheses, the position of the
> substring matching the part of the regular expression inside the parentheses
> is placed in the variables in the positionVarsList.
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>> On Aug 13, 2021, at 4:33 AM, Peter Reid via use-livecode
>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> ?Either I'm doing something wrong or both matchChunk and matchText are
>> broken.
>>
>> For example using matchChunk:
>>
>> local tStartPos, tEndPos
>> put empty into tStartPos
>> put empty into tEndPos
>>
>> put matchChunk("hello world how are you", "\ ho[a-z]", tStartPos, tEndPos)
>> into itMatches
>>
>> put itMatches & "|" & tStartPos & "|" & tEndPos & "|"
>>
>>
>> The output is: true||| - in other words a match is found but the
>> positions are not being returned in the variables tStart and tEnd
>>
>> I get the same behaviour from matchText, ie it correctly finds or not the
>> patterns I'm looking for but I don't get the positions (matchChunk) or text
>> (matchText).
>>
>> These seem to be fairly fundamental and frequently used functions that
>> should just work. Which is why I'm assuming that I'm doing something wrong!
>>
>> Please can anyone correct me (or confirm the fault)?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Peter
>> --
>> Peter Reid
>> Loughborough, UK
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