[Perl-pad-users] Capturing matches of regular expressions with PerlPad

[Thilo P. <thi...@us...>]

Hi all,

I have been thinking how to improve the support of popular Perl 
features in PerlPad.

I put together a new version with my current ideas on regular 
expressions:

http://perl-pad.sourceforge.net/PerlPadCaptureRegEx.dmg

It works like this:
There is a new built-in function capture, which you can put in front of 
pattern matches, like

> print "line $. matches ! \n" if capture /(\d+)/;

In case capture() encounters a match, it will put the matched text, the 
text before, the text after, along with $1, $2 ... into a new TableView 
which you can see in the bottom drawer by clicking on the button 
"Patterns" (next to "Warnings").

You can capture() as often as you want in a single snippet.

Please give it a try.

Bug reports, questions and suggestions always welcome,

Thilo