Thanks James I am using the community edition of LiveCode, but I remember that Thierry has been v helpful in the past. I just found a similar question I asked 4 years ago and he put lots of time in explaining:
https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?t=21157 I will review that because I have a feeling it has the answers I need. :-) On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 at 05:19, James Hale via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > You can do quite a lot with LC's chunk expressions as well as with the > matchtext and matchchunk functions. > > If you are willing to put a bit of time using these functions and arrays > you can pretty much make up for LC's shortcomings in this area. > > If you have an Indy or Business license of LC then you might also want to > look at Thierry's "SunnYrex" <https://sunny-tdz.com/livecode/sunnyrex>. > even if you choose not to use that Thierry himself (who is on the list) is > extremely generous with his time in answering questions about regex and how > to use it in LC. > > James > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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