Re: [TxMt] regex problem

At 4:14 PM -0500 4/1/05, Dameron Midgette wrote:

Sue Xxxxxxx 1244 Xxxx Street Bath ME 04530 USA (it's wrapping-8 tabs between last name and street) for this pattern: ^(*[^\t])\t(*[^\t]){8}\t replacing with this: $1\t$2\t

Those *'s are in bad places. If you want to match a greedy string of non-tab characters ending in a tab, do ([^\t]*)\t. I don't understand what "wrapping-8 tabs" means enough to help you more...

By the way I know Allan is aware that some truly mangled regexps (no offense... I myself have sent in some spectacular ones to him) crash TM, and that shouldn't happen.

best, Eric