Hans-Joerg Bibiko wrote:
Would it be possible to add the following feature to the normal Find dialog?
Given a string "c( 1, 22, 333 , 4444 )" in a line. I want to highlight item by item ('1', '22', etc.) by using the normal Find function (APPLE+G).
To do so I would write for instance this regexp: [,(] {0,}(.*?) {0,}[,)]
You can use lookahead and lookbehind. So you could do:
(?<=[,(] )(.*?)(?= *[,)])
The only problem with this is that lookbehind can't handle variable-length patterns, so you can't quite manage the pattern you have, with any number of spaces before the item. But if you want, you can make it handle 1-4 spaces, or something, as follows:
(?:(?<=[,(] )|(?<=[,(] {2})|(?<=[,(] {3})|(?<=[,(] {4})) (.*?)(?= *[,)])
Or similar.
See the documentation for more. Oniguruma regexps are very powerful.
-Jacob