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$regex return value #216865 04/12/09 11:47 PM
Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 236 Hell, Australia S s00p OP Fjord artisan
OP s00p Fjord artisan S Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 236 Hell, Australia	Perhaps I'm confused about how it works... From the mIRC help: Quote: $regex([name], text, re) Returns N, the number of strings in text that matched the regular expression. Am I correct if I state for example, that $regex(test,@@@@,/\@/) should return 4 instead of 1? Would someone care to offer some insight as to whether what the mIRC help file states is true, and if so elaborate/clarify? It is either incorrect (and a bug needs to be filed) or I have misunderstood the help documents (and it should be clarified).

Re: $regex return value s00p #216866 05/12/09 12:11 AM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,138 London, UK C Collective Hoopy frood
Collective Hoopy frood C Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,138 London, UK	The regex engine will stop after finding one match if not told to do otherwise with the /g switch. //echo -a $regex(test,@@@@,/\@/g) will echo 4.

Re: $regex return value s00p #216867 05/12/09 03:25 AM
Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 1,129 United States T Tomao Hoopy frood
Tomao Hoopy frood T Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 1,129 United States	Or Code: $regex(test,$str(@,4),/[@]/g)

Re: $regex return value Tomao #216868 05/12/09 03:27 AM
Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 236 Hell, Australia S s00p OP Fjord artisan
OP s00p Fjord artisan S Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 236 Hell, Australia	Thank you both.

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