<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div><br></div><div>Can you please help me understand what is happening between these two expressions?</div><div><br></div><div><div>^   beginning of the line</div><div><br></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><div>.*::.*</div></div></div></blockquote><div><div><div><br></div><div>$  end of the line</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>^   match the beginning of the line</div><div><br></div><div>.* followed by 0 or more characters (apart from newline)</div><div><br></div><div>:: followed by 2 literal colon characters</div><div><br></div><div>.* followed by 0 or more characters (apart from newline)</div></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:13.6px"><div>$  followed by the end of the line (a \n character)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div>also…<br></div><div><br></div><div>can you please tell me what the zero after the $ doing in this string?</div><div><br></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div>getValue( $0; 1) ;</div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The $0 is a way of referencing one of the captures the regular expression made</div><div>I'm not entirely sure this capturing syntax is right, normally I use brackets to capture, yet it seems to work in textmate. </div><div><br></div><div>We need to do this otherwise we don't know what to output after getValue(</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class=""><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Feb 7, 2016, at 7:29 AM, Carpii UK <<a href="mailto:carpii.uk@gmail.com" target="_blank">carpii.uk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">Try using a regular expression like this..</span><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><a href="http://carpii.homeip.net/skitch/Find-20160207-132857.png" target="_blank">http://carpii.homeip.net/skitch/Find-20160207-132857.png</a><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">The expression is ^.*::.*$</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></span></div><br><br>
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