Subj : RegExp Behaviour in FSE
To   : Deuce
From : Angus McLeod
Date : Fri Mar 03 2006 01:51 am

  Re: RegExp Behaviour in FSE
  By: Deuce to Angus McLeod on Thu Mar 02 2006 12:45:00

 >  > To completely throw a spanner in the works:  Quoting.  How will you treat
 >  > something like
 >  >
 >  >      > yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada Dumb
 >  >      > User yada yada yada yada yada yada yada
 >  >
 >  > when searching for /Dumb User/ or even /Dubm\s/User/m ?   ;-)
 > 
 > Well, I can't say it seems completely intuitive, since your example would
 > actually not have done what you said it would have.  :-)

Huh?  I *know* it won't match because of the > and the extra whitespace 
characters.  But should the quotation symbol be treated as whitespace 
(thus matching with \s) when applying RE's to quoted text?  ;-)  Just 
messing with ya....

 > As for adding a soft CR, the spaces are *still* at the end of the line... so
 > soft CRs were expanded to hard, you'd need /Dumb\s+User/ reather than
 > /Dumb\sUser/ or /Dumb User/

Oh, OK, I didn't realise that you left the space at the end of the line.  
But what I'm saying is that I should be able to match /Dumb$/m when Dumb 
User is auto-wrapped at line end (like that).  If I'm looking at the text 
and "Dumb" is at the end of the line, I *ought* to be able to match 
against it with /Dumb$/m withOUT having to guess whether there was an 
invisible space after the word, or whether that line break occured 
implicitly due to line-wrap or explicitly due to the press of the ENTER 
key.  

 > As for quoting, I plan on using Deep Magic for it when possible.

 > And possibly even rewrapping it to fit in the smaller width.
 > 
 > x8> DE> The fix is simply to use the correcty flags in the regex... m or s a
 > x8> DE> appropriate.

Hmmm.

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