Topic: Fix old regular expressions groups (1 of 4), Read 40 times Conf: VEDIT Macro Library From: Ian Binnie Date: Thursday, July 20, 2006 09:23 PM Forum users may be interested in the following simple macro to change macros that use regular expressions to "( )" groups. I though of an automated process, but decided this was too risky. I first did a Wildcard search for {|*}|*REGEXP then opened each file in search.tmp and ran the macro. This finds lines with old regular expressions groups, then changes them. Only one line is changed at a time, and the string is left highlighted to allow manual inspection of the change. // Change to 6.15 Reg Exp groups // Ian Binnie 2006-07-21 Search("{|*}|*REGEXP",CONFIRM|ERRBREAK) Replace_block("{","(",BB-1,BE,BEGIN|ALL) Replace_block("}",")",BB,BE,BEGIN|ALL) Goto_Pos(BE)

Topic: Re: Fix old regular expressions groups (2 of 4), Read 38 times Conf: VEDIT Macro Library From: Ted Green Date: Monday, July 24, 2006 09:47 PM At 09:23 PM 7/20/2006, you wrote: >Forum users may be interested in the following simple macro to change macros that use regular expressions to "( )" groups. Thank you; that should be useful as we will drop the old "{ }" group support in the next version. Ted.

Topic: Fix old regular expressions groups (3 of 4), Read 31 times Conf: VEDIT Macro Library From: Pauli Lindgren Date: Friday, September 15, 2006 01:52 PM On 7/20/2006 9:23:17 PM, Ian Binnie wrote: > >Search("{|*}|*REGEXP",CONFIRM|ERRBREAK) >Replace_block("{","(",BB-1,BE,BEGIN|ALL) >Replace_block("}",")",BB,BE,BEGIN|ALL) >Goto_Pos(BE) I think you need to first change "(" into "\(" and ")" into "\)". After that, you can change {...} into (...). -- Pauli

Topic: Fix old regular expressions groups (4 of 4), Read 29 times Conf: VEDIT Macro Library From: Ian Binnie Date: Saturday, September 16, 2006 03:52 AM On 9/15/2006 1:52:10 PM, Pauli Lindgren wrote: >On 7/20/2006 9:23:17 PM, Ian Binnie >wrote: >> >>Search("{|*}|*REGEXP",CONFIRM|ERRBREAK) >>Replace_block("{","(",BB-1,BE,BEGIN|ALL) >>Replace_block("}",")",BB,BE,BEGIN|ALL) >>Goto_Pos(BE) > >I think you need to first change "(" >into "\(" and ")" into "\)". >After that, you can change {...} into >(...). > >-- >Pauli > If you have "(" or ")" in your Reg Exp (which I didn't) this would be a good idea, and certainly do no harm even if you don't. As I pointed out in my original post, it was not my intention to fully automate the process, but to change each Reg Exp one at a time to allow inspection. My first changes (manual) missed a couple. The real point of the post was to suggest a process to find and highlight the Reg Exp which needed to change. The macro would then become:- Search("{|*}|*REGEXP",CONFIRM|ERRBREAK) Replace_block("(","\(",BB-1,BE,BEGIN|ALL|NOERR) Replace_block(")","\)",BB-1,BE,BEGIN|ALL|NOERR) Replace_block("{","(",BB-1,BE,BEGIN|ALL) Replace_block("}",")",BB,BE,BEGIN|ALL) Goto_Pos(BE)