Hi, Is that \2 and \1 I put in there used for anything? Thanks. Jim James D Homme, , Usability Engineering, Highmark Inc., james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx, 412-544-1810 "Never doubt that a thoughtful group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead "Veli-Pekka Tätilä" <vtatila@xxxxxxxx To dent.oulu.fi> programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent by: cc programmingblind- bounce@freelists. Subject org Re: Regular Expression Thickness Again 11/01/2007 11:00 AM Please respond to programmingblind@ freelists.org Hi James, Try something like the following, untested: Find: ^(function|script)(.*) Replace with: $2$1 Here we say at the beginning of a line either function or script captured followed by 0 or more but as many as you can of non new-lines captured. Then we instruct the regexp engine to replace the whole match with the secondly matched bit followed by the firstly matched bit. This is assuming a Perl 5 compliant regexp engine or PCRE. I don't know what the editor uses you mentioned. But the principles are much the same: Note most engines use parens for capturing groups, brackets are for character classes and braces for repetition counts i.e. quantifiers. Some use the back slash before one, others use the dollar. Perl actually stores any recently matched capturing groups into variables named $1, $2 etc... Also you don't need the dollar inside the second capturing group. It anchors a match but per se matches 0 characters, so it need not be included, if I've understood things correctly. Any corrections welcome. THis is just a quick reply I haven't even consulted a proper reference for this. -- With kind regards Veli-Pekka Tätilä (vtatila@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) Accessibility, game music, synthesizers and programming: http://www.student.oulu.fi/~vtatila james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi, > I put builtin.jsd into EdSharp. I want to swap the first word on every line > with the rest of the line if that line begins with either the word function > or the word script. > > My search expression is this. > (^[function|script])(.*$) > > My replacement expression is this. > \2\1 > > When I execute the replacement operation, the whole line disappears. What > did I do wrong? > > Thanks. __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind