i figured this one out. for some reason the ] didnt need to be escaped after the ^. So this worked:
<@REGEX EXPR='\[[^]]+\]' STR='@@local$text' TYPE=E> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 12:18 PM Subject: Witango-Talk: regex > hey everyone > > im trying to do a regex expression that looks for text in [ ] brackets. > > so if i had this text: > > "[text here] [text here too]" > > that it would find [text here] first. > > so far i have this: > > <@REGEX EXPR="\[[^\]]+\]" STR="@@local$text" TYPE=E> > > i was trying to escape the [ and ] with \[ and \] but the above says no > match, but if i do this regex: > > <@REGEX EXPR="\[.+\]" STR="@@local$text" TYPE=E> > > it returns: > > "[text here] [text here too]" instead of just "[text here]". > > does anyone know what im doing wrong? > > thanks for any help! > Alan > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
