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- From: cortesi@informix.com (David Cortesi)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
- Subject: regular expressions (was Re: Assorted questions)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.163125.25063@informix.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 16:31:25 GMT
- References: <h9anmrk@lynx.unm.edu>
- Sender: news@informix.com (Usenet News)
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- Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
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- In article <h9anmrk@lynx.unm.edu> wilcox@carina.unm.edu (Sherman Wilcox)
- writes:
- > ... Why, oh why, didn't Frame
- > just put a complete grep into the Mac FM? Is it built into FM on other
- > platforms?
-
- All platforms I've seen have the same very limited regular expression
- support, with which you cannot, for one example, search
- for "(.*)"; that is, a phrase in parens. (Because the star, meaning
- zero-or-more of the preceding, is not supported -- you can search for
- (*) which means "one word in parens" but you can't search for
- multiple words in parens.)
-
- [other gripes omitted]
-
- > Frame, are you listening?
-
- Not on this mailing list! If you want to tell Frame something, you
- should email directly to "comments@frame.com" which is definitely
- read by at least tech support, and supposedly by others at Frame.
-