joe-editor-general

[joe] JOE regex woes

[Duke N. <duk...@ml...>]

Why doesn't the regex:

\<<\+\[A-Z]>\>

work?

I'm trying to find all HTML tags in uppercase.

-- 
Duke

Re: [joe] JOE regex woes

[Carlos <an...@qu...>]

[Duke Normandin <duk...@ml...>, 2010-12-23 16:39]
> Why doesn't the regex:
> 
> \<<\+\[A-Z]>\>
> 
> work?

"\<" tries to match the beginning of a word, but "<" can never start a
word.

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Re: [joe] JOE regex woes

[Duke N. <duk...@ml...>]

On Fri, 24 Dec 2010, Carlos wrote:

> [Duke Normandin <duk...@ml...>, 2010-12-23 16:39]
> > Why doesn't the regex:
> >
> > \<<\+\[A-Z]>\>
> >
> > work?
>
> "\<" tries to match the beginning of a word, but "<" can never start
> a word.

I cannot believe that there is actually somebody reading this list!
Alleluia! :)

Well that's not good news that you send me. That means that it is
impossible to search and replace HTML tags with JOE regex? How would I
go about writing "<" and ">" in hex notation in JOE regex syntax? I'll
try _that_ if possible. Thanks.

Felice Navidad!
-- 
Duke Normandin
Turner Valley, Alberta, Canada

Re: [joe] JOE regex woes

[Tom K. <to...@ge...>]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:21:15PM -0700, Duke Normandin wrote:
> I cannot believe that there is actually somebody reading this list!
> Alleluia! :)

There are a few of us lurking in the shadows :)

> 
> Well that's not good news that you send me. That means that it is
> impossible to search and replace HTML tags with JOE regex? How would I
> go about writing "<" and ">" in hex notation in JOE regex syntax? I'll
> try _that_ if possible. Thanks.

Try this regex to match HTML tags:

<\+/\+\[A-Z]>

The only problem is that it will also match <> so watch out if you've got
that sequence.

Thanks,

Tom

Re: [joe] JOE regex woes

[Duke N. <duk...@ml...>]

On Fri, 24 Dec 2010, Tom Knight wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:21:15PM -0700, Duke Normandin wrote:
>
> > I cannot believe that there is actually somebody reading this list!
> > Alleluia! :)
>
> There are a few of us lurking in the shadows :)

Cool! We should start a website - JOE's Bar & Grill, or something - a
forum to discuss JOE and other issues of interest. :)

> > Well that's not good news that you send me. That means that it is
> > impossible to search and replace HTML tags with JOE regex? How would I
> > go about writing "<" and ">" in hex notation in JOE regex syntax? I'll
> > try _that_ if possible. Thanks.
>
> Try this regex to match HTML tags:
>
> <\+/\+\[A-Z]>
>
> The only problem is that it will also match <> so watch out if you've got
> that sequence.

Thanks for the recipe! Is there a way to "replace" the found HTML
uppercase tags with lowercase? Maybe \0\1\[a-z]\3 ?

Thanks! and Merry Christmas ...
-- 
Duke

Re: [joe] JOE regex woes

[Duke N. <duk...@ml...>]

On Fri, 24 Dec 2010, Tom Knight wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:21:15PM -0700, Duke Normandin wrote:
> > I cannot believe that there is actually somebody reading this list!
> > Alleluia! :)
>
> There are a few of us lurking in the shadows :)
>
> >
> > Well that's not good news that you send me. That means that it is
> > impossible to search and replace HTML tags with JOE regex? How would I
> > go about writing "<" and ">" in hex notation in JOE regex syntax? I'll
> > try _that_ if possible. Thanks.
>
> Try this regex to match HTML tags:
>
> <\+/\+\[A-Z]>
>
> The only problem is that it will also match <> so watch out if you've got
> that sequence.

BTW, I just tried your recipe - No Joy!

I'm using jmacs - could _that_ be the problem? or one of my settings
in ~/.jmacsrc?

-- 
Duke

Re: [joe] JOE regex woes

[Duke N. <duk...@ml...>]

On Fri, 24 Dec 2010, Carlos wrote:

> [Duke Normandin <duk...@ml...>, 2010-12-23 22:21]
> > On Fri, 24 Dec 2010, Carlos wrote:
> >
> > > [Duke Normandin <duk...@ml...>, 2010-12-23 16:39]
> > > > Why doesn't the regex:
> > > >
> > > > \<<\+\[A-Z]>\>
> > > >
> > > > work?
> > >
> > > "\<" tries to match the beginning of a word, but "<" can never start
> > > a word.
> >
> > I cannot believe that there is actually somebody reading this list!
> > Alleluia! :)
> >
> > Well that's not good news that you send me. That means that it is
> > impossible to search and replace HTML tags with JOE regex? How would I
> > go about writing "<" and ">" in hex notation in JOE regex syntax? I'll
> > try _that_ if possible. Thanks.
> >
> > Felice Navidad!
>
> What is impossible is to try to match the beginning and end of a tag
> with "\<" and "\>". Just use "<\+\[A-Z]>".

OK! I see...
Thanks again!
-- 
Duke