Thank you both for your comments. My jaw dropped that I had not noticed that before!! I need to do a lot of text manipulation, so hopefully I can do that with LiveCode's friendly and powerful text chunk features.
On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 at 14:22, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Hey Kaveh, > > To break down your request you are searching if the string "one two" > matches the pattern "(.+) (.+)" which it does as there are two word with a > space between that can have at least 2 characters per word (. = any > character, + = and extra character of that type, in this case 'any'). As it > does match that pattern, replaceText simply swaps out the "one two" for > exactly the string you have asked it to replace it with, namely "\2 \1" > verbatim. > > The replacement string cannot itself be a regex pattern which is what I > think you are trying to do here. The regEx part in the middle of the > function is just a pattern to match to and not a method to reorganise the > content of the search string, which is unfortunate. You would need a > slightly longer script to achieve this. A repeat loop using 'put "2,1" into > tSortOrder'; put trueword (item x of tSortOrder) of tOldString into word x > of tNewString' would do what you want in simple terms. > > Sean > > > On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 at 09:40, Kaveh Bazargan via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > What am I missing? I put in message box: > > > > put replacetext("one two", "(.+) (.+)", "\2 \1") > > > > I get result: > > > > "\2 \1" > > > > rather than: > > > > "two one" > > > > > > > > -- > > Kaveh Bazargan > > Director > > River Valley Technologies <http://rivervalleytechnologies.com/> • > Twitter > > <https://twitter.com/kaveh1000> • LinkedIn > > <https://www.linkedin.com/in/bazargankaveh/> > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Kaveh Bazargan Director River Valley Technologies <http://rivervalleytechnologies.com/> • Twitter <https://twitter.com/kaveh1000> • LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/bazargankaveh/> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode