#2812 Placeholder to find text with regex

[Miguel Motta]

Today, there is the placeholder {T-REPLACE-RX:/Text/Search/Replace/}.
I would like a placeholder like {T-FIND-RX:/Text/Search/}.

The result is the return of the query.

This will make regex simpler than using replace in many situations.

Thanks,
Miguel Motta

[T. Bug Reporter]

The KeePass help file includes this info about T-REPLACE-RX:

Usage example. Let the user name field contain the e-mail address myname@example.com and the URL field {T-REPLACE-RX:!{USERNAME}!.*@(.*)!https://$1!}. When running the URL field, KeePass opens https://example.com.

This shows that the regex evaluator used for this does accept constructs that use the data found by the /Search/ expression to build the /Replace/ expression. The upshot of this is that you can build your own T-FIND-RX function by specifying a null replacement: {T-REPLACE-RX:/Text/(Search)/$1/}.

[Miguel Motta]

Hi!

Yes, I understand that the FIND can be used with REPLACE.

Idea is replace:

{T-REPLACE-RX:!{USERNAME}!.*@(.*)!https://$1!)}

By:

https://{T-FIND-RX:!{USERNAME}!(?<=@).*!}

[Paul]

No point in adding a Find version because the result is the same in a placeholder.

cheers, Paul

[T. Bug Reporter]

I guess this proposal boils down to "Is the convenience of having a separate {T-FIND-RX} command great enough to justify its existence?" Obviously, the OP thinks it does, but it probably depends more on how easy it would be to implement.