One other suggestion... the docs for PCRE (the underlying regex engine in Rev) is at:
http://www.pcre.org/man.txt Have fun! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Witte > Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 10:23 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Non-greedy regex? > > > Hi, > > I want to scan a long chunk of multiline text and extract > all lines > that contain the string gClassMangle (in the form of > '__##<classname>' > where ## is the length of the class name). I'm was trying to use the > following script - the basic idea is to find the first > match, get it, > then delete everything up to and including it from the text > and repeat. > > put "__" & tClassLength & gClassName into gClassMangle > put "(\n([^_]*)" & gClassMangle & "([^\n]*)\n)" into tPatter > > repeat forever > put empty into startMatch > put empty into endMatch > if matchChunk(gJumpText, tPattern, startMatach, endMatch) then > get char startMatch to endMatch of gJumpText > answer it > delete char 1 to endMatch of gJumpText > else > exit repeat > end if > end repeat > > But it was matching everything from the beginning of the > text to the > end of the first match. I realized this was because it was doing a > greedy match (as regex is), and so didn't just match from the nearest > return character (beginning of the line), but from the first return > character (beginning of the text). > > Is there an elegant way (without having to count back > characters and > such from endMatch) to get matchChunk to do what I want and do a > "non-greedy" match? > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-> revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
