[TxMt] Re: TM Find Dialog Enhancement (?)
Jacob Rus
jacobolus at gmail.com
Tue Apr 24 19:19:35 UTC 2007
Hans-Joerg Bibiko wrote:
>> The problem is that the current Find function doesn't select only the
>> content of the regexp group '(.*?)', it also highlight the commas and
>> brackets.
> To write such lookahead/lookbehind regexp could be a bit tricky ;)
Why? You just want word characters? Then you can do:
\b\w+\b
And you should get the next word. Anyway, if the commas and brackets
are in a lookahead or lookbehind they won't be matched. So they won't
be "highlighted" by the find function either. And if you have many
things you *don't* want matched you can always make a negative
lookahead/behind. I'm really not sure what the problem is.
I suggest you find a tutorial or help document about regular
expressions. It should help explain the possibilities. One that I
liked was the “Python Regular Expression Howto” (google it). They are
very powerful, and you should be able to do what you want with them.
-Jacob
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