Regular Expressions: Support for Non-Greedy Matching

[lukasbradley]

I would love support for non-greedy matching using Textpad. A great link is here:

http://www.regular-expressions.info/repeat.html

Basically, If I attempt to match everything in an alt tag such as...

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<img alt="This is the text inside" src="hooplah.png" />

And I attempt to use....

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alt=".*"

The following will be matched...

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alt="This is the text inside" src="hooplah.png"

But all I really want is....

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alt="This is the text inside"

So the answer is this....

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alt=".*?"

Which Textpad doesn't currently support. So I would fantastically love it if it did.

Thank you.

[Bob Hansen]

Using POSIX

Search for:
<img (alt=".*") src=.*

Replace with:
\1

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This:
<img alt="This is the text inside" src="hooplah.png" />

Becomes this:
alt="This is the text inside"

[MudGuard]

search for

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alt="[^"]*"

[lukasbradley]

Yes, there are ALWAYS solutions to SPECIFIC problems. I'm looking for non-greedy qualifiers, not answers to a specific issue.

Thank you for trying to help, however.

[s_reynisson]

There's a poll out on this, see here.

[lukasbradley]

Excellent. Voted. Thank you.

[ben_josephs]

Have you had a look at Helios's WildEdit (http://www.textpad.com/download/wildedit.html)?

[lukasbradley]

FANTASTIC! It looks like the code is already written!

So there will be no problem porting this over to TextPad, so I won't have to buy another set of licenses for a new product, right?!