In this case you need the entire line unbroken, so that's why $0 works.

Good point! I had a feeling it was working by accident but couldn't spot why :-)


Rasmus

On 07/02/16 19.14, Carpii UK wrote:

Can you please help me understand what is happening between these two expressions?

^   beginning of the line

.*::.*

$  end of the line



^   match the beginning of the line

.* followed by 0 or more characters (apart from newline)

:: followed by 2 literal colon characters

.* followed by 0 or more characters (apart from newline)

$  followed by the end of the line (a \n character)


also…

can you please tell me what the zero after the $ doing in this string?

getValue( $0; 1) ;


The $0 is a way of referencing one of the captures the regular expression made
I'm not entirely sure this capturing syntax is right, normally I use brackets to capture, yet it seems to work in textmate. 

We need to do this otherwise we don't know what to output after getValue(



 



On Feb 7, 2016, at 7:29 AM, Carpii UK <carpii.uk@gmail.com > wrote:

Try using a regular expression like this..


The expression is ^.*::.*$



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