[TxMt] Re: How can I find and replace carriage returns?

Carpii UK carpii.uk at gmail.com
Sun Feb 7 18:14:06 UTC 2016


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> Can you please help me understand what is happening between these two
> expressions?
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> ^   beginning of the line
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> .*::.*
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> $  end of the line
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^   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…
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> can you please tell me what the zero after the $ doing in this string?
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> getValue( $0; 1) ;
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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(





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> On Feb 7, 2016, at 7:29 AM, Carpii UK <carpii.uk at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Try using a regular expression like this..
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> http://carpii.homeip.net/skitch/Find-20160207-132857.png
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> The expression is ^.*::.*$
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