<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Josep,<br><br>I agree regular expressions can be hard to learn and I was never able to find any good web resources because there are too many unhelpful sites. I ended up finding (and buying) two books that have turned out to be quite helpful:<br>
<br> "Practical Computing for Biologists" by Haddock and Dunn, which has a section on regular expressions (the book is written for Mac Users, another plus!).<br><br></div>And<br></div>"Unix Shells by Example" by Quigley, which also has a nice intro to regular expressions
<div><div><br></div><div>Good luck!<br><br></div><div>Richard <br></div><div><br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Josep Maria Font <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmfont@ub.edu" target="_blank">jmfont@ub.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">In another thread, on 19 Mar 2013, at 13:43, Herbert Schulz wrote:<br>
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> On Mar 19, 2013, at 7:36 AM, Scot Mcphee <<a href="mailto:scot.mcphee@gmail.com" target="_blank">scot.mcphee@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> If I need complex search and replace I use BBEdit. It has the ability to do regexp style matching.<br>
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> The Ogrekit Find Panel allows for several styles of regex. I use BBEdit a lot for multi-file operations but for simple regex Find/Replace I stick with TeXShop and the Ogrekit Find Panel.<br>
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Can anyone recommend a good and practical source for the occasional user of regex ? From time to time, I feel like I would need it for some complicated operation, but don't know where to go for basic explanations, and end up doing a lot of by hand searches and replace.<br>
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