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Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 15:55:03 -0400
To: Stuart.Robinson@anu.edu.au (Stuart Robinson)
From: Jan Theodore Galkowski/Helen Andrea Galkowski <jtgalkowski@alum.mit.edu>
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At 04:51 AM 9/2/97 +0000, you wrote:
>Does anyone know where I can lay my hands on a good intro to GREP (which
>I'm using on BBEdit)?
Hurray for BBEdit. Nisus Writer is also good. (Pardon the editorial.)
>.........................(Where else might I enquire?) I am doing a good
>deal of corpus work and I want to be able to search for complicated string
>patterns. Icon is good for some of these searches but sometimes it's not
>worth the programming time.
>
>Thanks in advance.
Just look for any documentation on EMACS. It has a succinct description of
how GREP patterns work since it offers it in its search and search and replace
capabilities.
>
>--
>Stuart Robinson <Stuart.Robinson@anu.edu.au>
>The Australian National University
-jt
P.S. I believe there's a pattern-oriented procedure package in the Icon
library, so you don't have to distill GREP down to MOVEs, UPTOs, and
ARBNOs.
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