[OS X TeX] Regex

[George Gratzer]

Dear Josep Maria,

We all have the same problem: we have to Grep once a year and when we have to, we find that we have to start from scratch.

My saviour is the BBEdit User Manual that has a 32 page chapter on Grep. Try it.

Best,

George


On 2013-03-19, at 10:36 AM, Josep Maria Font <jmfont at ub.edu> wrote:

> On 19 Mar 2013, at 14:54, Herbert Schulz wrote:
> 
>> Try to Google regex and see if you find anything worthwhile there.
> 
> Of course. But, as Richard Erickson wrote:
> 
>> I was never able to find any good web resources because there are too many unhelpful sites.
> 
> 
> I was only hoping that someone with the same needs would share some nice experience...
> 
>> (I don't like to recommend particular places because there are different kinds of regex [e.g., Ruby, Perl, bash use somewhat different syntax] and people learn different ways.)
> 
> Then it would be imperative to know the version used by the OgreKit Find Panel!
> 
> Actually, concerning OgreKit the TeXShop Help Panel points to <http://www-gauge.scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~sonobe/OgreKit>, which is not found by the browser. I have found <http://sonoisa.github.com/ogrekit/About_(English).html> which seems newer, and where I found the information that
> 
>> OgreKit uses Oniguruma as its regular expression engine. Oniguruma is an excellent regular expression library developed by Mr. Kosako. It is used as the regular expression engine of Ruby Language.
> 
> So at least we know we have to go for Ruby-style regex.
> 
> 
> JMaF
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> 
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