On 4. Apr 2007, at 10:49, Ed Singleton wrote:
On 4/3/07, Allan Odgaard throw-away-1@macromates.com wrote:
On 3. Apr 2007, at 17:05, Ed Singleton wrote:
[...] Which is good enough as a solution, but I'd still like to know if there is a way to solve the problem using nested regexs?
Nested regexps are currently not supported.
Fair enough. Is that 'currently' as in 'it's on the todo list' or as in 'it's not considered a particularly important feature'?
There will be “nesting” in 2.0, that is re-applying a regexp on a capture variable.
For example you can do:
${1/(.*)Form/${1/…/…/}Field/}
Here the inner substitution on capture 1 would do the CamelCase to underscore_case or vice versa.
But chaining regexp substitutions, as what you really asked for, that is not presently planned mainly because I don’t like the syntax I have been able to come up with for it, and the usefulness is even less when nesting is introduced.