regular expression in BRC

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regular expression in BRC

Postby jeffhawke » Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:13 pm

Hi,

first of all a great thanks for a very useful utility, in windows we really missed something like this.

Now, I really would like to see BRC improved with complete support for regular expression the same way BRU is (I'm talking about box 1 in BRU).

Most of the time I can do my job with the options BRC already has but sometimes the need to do an effective

s/<PATTERN>/<REPLACEMENT>/

is high and I really could use its sheer power.

Thanks anyway for your nice work,
Jeff
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Re: regular expression in BRC

Postby Admin » Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:16 pm

Hi Jeff,

it's something I've been meaning to add for a while, and it shouldn't actually be too involved. I just haven't found the time.

Perhaps over Christmas I'll get the chance to work on it.



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Re: regular expression in BRC

Postby jeffhawke » Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:16 pm

Thanks for the reply, Jim, that would be great.

In particular, I'd like to be able to search for files with, say, a trailing ! and deleting every trailing ! (but not any inside !) with a single command.

with BRU I'd use the regular expression field (number 1) and:
match: !+(.*)
replace: \1

Quick and easy with regexp but tiresome and difficult without
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Re: regular expression in BRC

Postby Stefan » Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:14 pm

Hi Jim and welcome back. All the best for the future.

I too would like to see an improved BRC , maybe you can put some effort in this issue :D

RegEx s///gic would be an big helper, especially with \U\L\E case-changing support.
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