I noticed that a couple of useful regex symbols aren't supported, the two I tried were | and ?. | is alternation. The specific example I tried was (<code>|</code>), pretty simple. When that didn't work I decided to try another method, </?code>, but found that wasn't supported either.
If you could support those two methods that would be great.
-Kerry
P.S. I ended up having to do </*code> which is a bit sloppy but worked fine since it wasn't that important of a document.
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I saw the code of N++ where all regex stuff is delegated to some poor, completely non-standard, badly documented scintillas' function. Why?!
I would find quite reasonable to support standard Perl compatible regular expressions in N++ (please see http://www.pcre.org\). As far as I know there exists a stable FREE implementation in C/C++.
P.S.: honestly, RegEx is the only thing which prevents me from using N++. All the rest is quite nice really ;)
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Good luck,
Alexander
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I used to use Scintilla a lot, but it takes for ever to load. I was looking for another lightweight text editor several weeks ago, and I found N++.
I love it... almost. It loads quickly, and the UI is 100% better than Scintilla's. Unforunately, regex support is *very* basic. If you guys aren't using regex in your search/replace (when you work), you're missing out.
On a side note, There is a typo in the second example ("You have a document with a lot of dates, which are in German date format...") given on the N++ regex page, here: http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/regExpList.php
[Using the text:]
31.12.97 became 97-12-31 and 14.08.05 became 05-08-14 and the IP address 14.13.14.14 did not change, you're done :-)
[Then find/replace with:]
Find what : ([^0-9])([0123][0-9])\.([01][0-9])\.([0-9][0-9])([^0-9])
Replace with : \1\4-\3-\2\5
[Gives you the following result:]
97-12-31 became 97-12-31 and 05-08-14 became 05-08-14 and the IP address 14-13-14.14 did not change, you're done :-)
In other words... the IP address, 14.13.14.14, DOES change.
- David J
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Hi,
I noticed that a couple of useful regex symbols aren't supported, the two I tried were | and ?. | is alternation. The specific example I tried was (<code>|</code>), pretty simple. When that didn't work I decided to try another method, </?code>, but found that wasn't supported either.
If you could support those two methods that would be great.
-Kerry
P.S. I ended up having to do </*code> which is a bit sloppy but worked fine since it wasn't that important of a document.
Hello,
Agree with the previous post.
I saw the code of N++ where all regex stuff is delegated to some poor, completely non-standard, badly documented scintillas' function. Why?!
I would find quite reasonable to support standard Perl compatible regular expressions in N++ (please see http://www.pcre.org\). As far as I know there exists a stable FREE implementation in C/C++.
P.S.: honestly, RegEx is the only thing which prevents me from using N++. All the rest is quite nice really ;)
--
Good luck,
Alexander
I used to use Scintilla a lot, but it takes for ever to load. I was looking for another lightweight text editor several weeks ago, and I found N++.
I love it... almost. It loads quickly, and the UI is 100% better than Scintilla's. Unforunately, regex support is *very* basic. If you guys aren't using regex in your search/replace (when you work), you're missing out.
On a side note, There is a typo in the second example ("You have a document with a lot of dates, which are in German date format...") given on the N++ regex page, here:
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/regExpList.php
[Using the text:]
31.12.97 became 97-12-31 and 14.08.05 became 05-08-14 and the IP address 14.13.14.14 did not change, you're done :-)
[Then find/replace with:]
Find what : ([^0-9])([0123][0-9])\.([01][0-9])\.([0-9][0-9])([^0-9])
Replace with : \1\4-\3-\2\5
[Gives you the following result:]
97-12-31 became 97-12-31 and 05-08-14 became 05-08-14 and the IP address 14-13-14.14 did not change, you're done :-)
In other words... the IP address, 14.13.14.14, DOES change.
- David J
http://www.pcre.org