Posted 20 years ago by Marianne
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Two questions:
#1 - Does the regex engine support the \r\n escapes in find/replace? I would like to be able to add cr/lf sequences in some scripts, and to remove them in others. I'm not able to get the find/replace to operate on \r\n at all. It doesn't seem to be able to find the characters.

#2 - For replacing, how do I reference a pattern match? For example, normally if I wanted to add a cr/lf to the end of every closing xml tag, the match would be:
(</\w+> ) and the replacement would be: $1\r\n

What syntax do I need to allow for this? Or is this something that the regex engine doesn't account for at present? Thanks.

------------------------------- Marianne

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Posted 20 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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You can do linefeed searches but remember that internally \r (cr) is stripped out. So searching on \n will work fine with regexs but any use of \r will never match.

The regex engine currently doesn't support capturing. I'll put it on the TODO list.


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Posted 20 years ago by Eric J. Smith
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I second the regex replace feature request. Being able to do a regex find/replace is a very powerful feature.

Thanks,
Eric J. Smith
The latest build of this product (v24.1.1) was released 3 months ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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