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implement the e modifier in $regsub #57853 27/10/03 01:44 AM
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 70 M madewokherd OP Babel fish
OP madewokherd Babel fish M Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 70	For evaluation of the replace text after the matches are replaced.

Re: implement the e modifier in $regsub #57854 27/10/03 01:24 PM
Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 2,812 Raccoon Hoopy frood
Raccoon Hoopy frood Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 2,812	The \E \U \L modifiers themselves wouldn't be the issue, as PCRE doesn't recognize these (yet). Whether or not Khaled can write his own implimentation is another story though. Yes, it would be exceedingly handy to have string manipulation control over \1 in the replacement text of $regsub. I would suggest adding a new //flag that indicates replacement text is an $identifier and have \1 \2 \3 passed as $1 $2 $3. This way your identifier can perform complex string manipulation on each back-reference and /return exactly what you want it to replace with. Also, $rawmsg should be populated with the contents of \0 (as $0 cannot be). [color:000066]/.!echo -q $regsub(%s,/[regex]/[color:red]A[/color],titlecase,%s) ALIAS titlecase { return $upper($left($1,1)) $+ $mid($1-,2) }[/color] This would function much like the new /debug -i switch. - Raccoon Well. At least I won lunch. Good philosophy, see good in bad, I like!

Re: implement the e modifier in $regsub #57855 27/10/03 03:18 PM
Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 810 C cold Hoopy frood
cold Hoopy frood C Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 810	That would be amazingly handy indeed.. I hate having to loop using $regml * cold edits his posts 24/7

Re: implement the e modifier in $regsub #57856 04/11/03 08:09 PM
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 38 North America O Olathe Ameglian cow
Olathe Ameglian cow O Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 38 North America	This is difficult to do in an alias, but it can be done. $regsub doesn't like replacements with identifiers in them. Here's an alias I made to solve the problem (remember to use $!identifier instead of $identifier) : Code: ; Slightly different from $regsub: you don't put a variable as the last argument. ; Example: echo 4 -a IAL entries: $regsube(test !@* test, /^.(\S+\!\S+@\S+).$/, $!ial(\1, 0)) alias regsube { var %original = $1, %regex = $2, %replacement = $replace($3, $, $chr(1)), %result .echo -q $regsub($1, $2, %replacement, %result) set %result $replace(%result, $chr(1), $) set %result $eval(%result, 2) return %result }

Re: implement the e modifier in $regsub #57857 04/11/03 11:31 PM
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 70 M madewokherd OP Babel fish
OP madewokherd Babel fish M Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 70	The problem with that is that it will evaluate any expressions already in the original. It will also not work properly if the thing being replaces is not one word.

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