[TF] "north east west" -> "NEW" ?

[leuschner at gmx.n. (J. Leuschner)]

Johan van Selst wrote:

> This obviously has nothing todo with PCRE's anymore; and I don't think
> TF 4 has an option to do regular expression substitutions like sed or
> perl will offer you.
> 
> The mysterious TF 5 and the package at
> http://tf-macros.sourceforge.net/packages/ do support PCRE-like
> matching, but I'm not sure if these offer substitutions in a similar
> way as well...

This package is *not* TF5. It is a modified/patched version of tf40s1 
(mainly modified by me). It was started out of frustration, because I 
don't belive that TF5 will ever be released.

And yes, it uses PCRE for regexp matching but it doesn't support 
substitution like Perl.

TF has replace() for substitutions (but replace() can't use regexps).

Jens