RE: [ jEdit-users ] Search and Replace Question

[Ciszkowski, J. <Jac...@na...>]

What are the strings you are trying to match? I can give you a regex to =
use...

-----Original Message-----
From: jed...@li...
[mailto:jed...@li...]On Behalf Of Randall R
Schulz
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 11:45 AM
To: jed...@li...
Subject: Re: [ jEdit-users ] Search and Replace Question


Steve, Andrew,

On Tuesday 14 December 2004 08:32, Steve Jakob wrote:
> On 14-Dec-04, at 11:08 AM, Garst Andrew wrote:
> > In the following Search and Replace
> > Search:
> > ^(\S.*?)\b(AND|WHERE|FROM|OR)\b
> > Replace:
> > $1\n$2
> > Clicking on "Replace All" only performs the Search and Replace on
> > the first match per line and I would like it to perform the replace
> > on every
> > match in the line.
>
> The caret symbol (^) ensures that the RE will match only at the start
> of the line, which is why it only matches once per line.
>
> Try removing it.
>
> I must admit, I'm having trouble figuring out exactly what it is
> you're trying to match using this RE, especially with regards to
> "(\S.*?)" and the reason for the backspace (\b) escape sequences.

That is a puzzle, eh? Technically, I thought two closure operators in a=20
row were an RE syntax error.

Perhaps Andrew is unaware that '?' is a regular expression operator=20
(meaning match zero or one of the immediately preceding (sub-)=20
expression).

Or perhaps he just meant "(\S.*)?"


> Steve Jakob

Randall Schulz


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