Re: Regular Expression Question: How To Search For Section Titles

Jim,
Would you give us the specific search and replace expressions you are trying to use? I think .NET regular expressions are generally compatible with Perl ones. In fact, Perl 5 syntax has generally become the standard for regular expressions.
In case this makes a difference, you need to use \1 rather than $1 if you are referring to a captured expression within the search. That is because the $ sign has a meaning of an end of line delimiter within the search. In the replace statement, however, use $1 rather than \1. 

Jamal

On 8/6/2010 1:48 PM, Homme, James wrote:

Hi,
Maybe EdSharp uses .Net regular expressions, and maybe they are different from 
Perl regular expressions. I was trying to use $1 to capture and replace, but it 
was literally inserting $1. I was trying to put
\f before $1 in the replacement expression. I'm attempting to find what it 
thinks might be titles and put a page break before them so that I can simply 
look through the document and spot check to see if the lines are really titles 
rather than read the whole thousand pages and find them all by hand.

Thanks.

Jim

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-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Bauer
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 1:25 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Regular Expression Question: How To Search For Section Titles

It does, just not inside a character class. If you wanted to match something 
from one of several character classes using `|', you would do something
like:
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[a-z]|[A-Z]|[...]
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But you can just spell out everything you want to match in a single character 
class, so I don't see that as particularly useful.

On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 12:48:12 -0400, Homme, James wrote:

Hi,
I'm misusing the vertical bar. I thought it created an or condition.

Jim

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-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Bauer
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 10:36 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Regular Expression Question: How To Search For Section Titles

You're including `|' in your last character class, not matching uppercase 
letters or lowercase letters or digits. This means something like `This is a
test|' will match, which, of course, is fine if that's what you're intending. :)

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^[A-Z].+[A-Za-z0-9]$
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On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 09:42:55 -0400, Homme, James wrote:

Hi,
How would you construct a regular expression that looks for the first letter of 
any line in upper case followed by the rest of the line as long as it ends with 
a letter or number?  Would it be something like this?
^[A-Z].*[A-Z|a-z|1-9]$

Thanks.

Jim

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