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by geoffreykidd
Sun May 01, 2016 5:49 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Clip (TCL) file character set
Replies: 1
Views: 423

Problem Fixed

It turns out that even if your default encoding on save is UTF-8, clip library files must be saved as ANSI. All is now well.
by geoffreykidd
Thu Apr 28, 2016 11:04 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Clip (TCL) file character set
Replies: 1
Views: 423

Clip (TCL) file character set

What are the allowed entries for the CHARSET? I'm trying to legitimize a clip library which includes things like curly quotes. If I say "DEFAULT," when I click on the "LeftSingleQuote" entry, it shows up on my text as ‘ instead of ‘
by geoffreykidd
Thu May 08, 2014 7:25 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Replace is destroying line endings
Replies: 25
Views: 3914

The alteration wasn't obvious to me, I'm afraid. I can do a few things with regular expressions, RegEx 101 level. This stuff seems to be a lot higher level.

A thousand thanks.
by geoffreykidd
Thu May 08, 2014 6:23 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Replace is destroying line endings
Replies: 25
Views: 3914

Straight Quotes RegEx?

I've discovered I need to do the same gig as for curly quotes with straight quotes. Any suggestions? BTW, the curly quote regex is backed up on my systems. I occasionally look at it and mutter "My precious." :)
by geoffreykidd
Wed Jul 31, 2013 5:58 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Special Characters TCL file
Replies: 2
Views: 529

Thank you. Once I got specialchars.tcl saved in ANSI coding, it worked like a charm. I also noticed the differences between how you did it and how I did it. I'll be using that information in future changes and new clips.
by geoffreykidd
Sat Jul 27, 2013 5:23 am
Forum: General
Topic: Special Characters TCL file
Replies: 2
Views: 529

Special Characters TCL file

I'm trying to create a clip library which will let me quickly enter some special characters I use frequently so I don't have to set the numlock key on and hit alt+0147 or some other combo. However, I keep getting error messages. Here's what I've got so far, and it blows up on line 8, according to ...
by geoffreykidd
Sun Jun 30, 2013 3:51 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Setting up a library of Find(s)
Replies: 5
Views: 902

Thank you, Mike. I did that, but was hoping there was an easier way to get "canned" stuff into the finder field. Possibly up the line there will be a way to mark certain "find" entries as favorites. Meanwhile, this gets my work done.
by geoffreykidd
Thu Jun 27, 2013 6:24 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Setting up a library of Find(s)
Replies: 5
Views: 902

Setting up a library of Find(s)

I've got a small collection of Regular Expressions, and I'd like to be able to save them in a library where I can click on them and have them immediately entered as the "Find what:". Is there any way to set this up so I don't have to load the RegEx into a separate file, and copy/paste that into the ...
by geoffreykidd
Wed May 01, 2013 10:37 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RegEx expression for quote check in British-typesets
Replies: 2
Views: 560

Yes.

I get a fair number of false positives, but then, I do for american-style typesetting, too. :)

This is gorgeous and will be a great timesaver.

You, sir, are a wizard, and I thank you.
by geoffreykidd
Wed May 01, 2013 7:56 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RegEx expression for quote check in British-typesets
Replies: 2
Views: 560

RegEx expression for quote check in British-typesets

Unlike we Yanks, the Brits use single quotes to delimit dialogue. This poses a challenge for detecting unbalanced quotemarks in their books. The following two paragraphs illustate both a line with genuinely unbalanced quotes and one where the word "I'll" also includes a single quote which should be ...
by geoffreykidd
Tue Apr 23, 2013 10:29 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RegEx and non-English Characters
Replies: 3
Views: 607

I didn't know that. [grin] It looked like a capital-B.

Thank you.

I must say, IMHO, the new RegEx engine supersedes sliced bread for utility.
by geoffreykidd
Tue Apr 23, 2013 10:01 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RegEx and non-English Characters
Replies: 3
Views: 607

Update: my bad

I re-checked the source text I was using and discovered that all the accented characters had already been changed to "?" because that's what textpad does when the default display font doesn't support accented characters. I changed the default font to Courier New and the accented/non-english ...
by geoffreykidd
Tue Apr 23, 2013 8:51 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RegEx and non-English Characters
Replies: 3
Views: 607

RegEx and non-English Characters

I'm trying to generate a list of all the unique words in a text. Basic approach is to change anything that's NOT a hyphen, single-quote mark (both straight and curly), a "word character" or a digit into a "newline character, and then sort the list with case-sensitivity turned on and deletion of ...
by geoffreykidd
Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:45 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Replace is destroying line endings
Replies: 25
Views: 3914

I checked the latest RegEx out in 7.0.4. No problems.
by geoffreykidd
Tue Apr 16, 2013 10:13 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Replace is destroying line endings
Replies: 25
Views: 3914

It passed RegEx Buddy in Perl mode with flying colors. I also just tried it on the earlier file that caused problems and a new text I just received. It worked beautifully in both cases.

Thank you.