FW that can search text files for string and lists them.
in [Freeware]
|
Prev: Freeware needlepoint design software?
Next: protect..
From: jon on 29 Mar 2007 20:40 MitchellWMA wrote: >On Mar 29, 5:30 pm, jon <mcdaddu...(a)hhotmail.ccom.invalid> wrote: >> �Q� wrote: >> > There are plenty of >> >freeware apps which will use them, some mentioned by others in this >> >thread. >> >> >To use regular expressions to find words beginning with s and ending in >> >e, use >> >> >\bs\w*e\b >> >> Yes - I thought of a text editor; but one that *lists* the returns? >> >> NoteTab Light is interesting. You can load multiple text files and do >> a regex search through them all, F3ing to the next return. >> No list return option AFAICS. >> >> This works in NoteTab to find words that begin with 's' and end with >> 'e': >> >> \bs[a-z]*e\b > >I tried this in Agent Ransack >^s[a-z]e$ >but the "[a-z]" worked like a "." and returned only 3-letter words. >Bummer. Bummer indeed. A real problem with regex is the amount of different flavours that exist for it. Life is too short to learn regex if every implementation has different rules. I got interested in this cos I'm starting to use NoteTab's ability to load and search multiple files. And the search box has a regex option. So I tried �Q�'s expression. And it didn't work. So I went to his site and did a bit of research and found that my expression, quoted above, works in NoteTab. Doesn't give you a "list" - does give you a workround. Agent Ransack? Dunno - must be a different 'flavour' - quelle surprise. My testing involved quite a few expressions that only gave 3 letter word returns. Too many flavours; too many newbies. :-) Don't suppose anything changes in Agent Ransack if you replace ^s[a-z]e$ with ^s[a-z]*e$ Too many flavours; too many newbies...
From: jon on 29 Mar 2007 20:49 MitchellWMA wrote: >^s[a-z]*e$ I should have read the group a bit more before posting my last post. :-) >So my money is on Agent Ransack. Well done. I've seen it referenced here so often but have yet to look at it. Now, I really must.
From: »Q« on 29 Mar 2007 22:08 In <news:e500cad2bb09d38d1445a38ca441dc6bnp(a)mcdaddums.3>, jon <mcdaddums3(a)hhotmail.ccom.invalid> wrote: > I got interested in this cos I'm starting to use NoteTab's ability to > load and search multiple files. And the search box has a regex option. > So I tried �Q�'s expression. And it didn't work. So I went to his site > and did a bit of research and found that my expression, quoted above, > works in NoteTab. The \w defines a special character class in PCRE[1], and I guess Notetab's regular expression engine doesn't recognize it. In that case, it'll generally be better to just define your own classes, as you did with [a-z] . I'm not seeing Google Groups posts, but it looks like the OP has things working after putting the * back in your expression. :) [1] Perl-compatible regular expressions, used by most apps I think. -- �Q�
From: jmatt on 29 Mar 2007 22:50 On Mar 30, 10:08 am, »Q« <boxc...(a)gmx.net> wrote: > In <news:e500cad2bb09d38d1445a38ca441dc6bnp(a)mcdaddums.3>, > I'm not seeing Google Groups posts, but it looks like the OP has things > working after putting the * back in your expression. :) You can see it here, if you want to. http://groups.google.ca/group/alt.comp.freeware/browse_thread/thread/548cc345fac60281
From: Yeah on 30 Mar 2007 08:20
<jmatt(a)webace.com.au> wrote in message news:1175169281.405018.50650(a)r56g2000hsd.googlegroups.com... > On Mar 29, 8:19 pm, MitchellWmA <nospamm...(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >> but it can't find all words beginning with a letter and ending with >> another letter. > > Why not do a search with the 1st & last letter missing. Um, what good is that? It won't match all possibilities. |