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I've composed the beginnings of a FAQ, regarding Regular Expressions and TextPad.

http://equity.wharton.upenn.edu/~epstei ... n_faq.html

This document contains a bunch of examples that I've observed and paraphrased from posts in the forum. Regular Expressions are pretty intimidating for newbies, and I hope this FAQ will (eventually) smooth out the learning curve.

Please let me know if you find this document helpful. I would love advice and tips on improving it. Feel free to contribute URLs/essays/opinions related to regular expressions and TextPad (tips, fun facts, syntax, theory, background, ...). In particular, an opinion comparing the advantages and disadvantages of POSIX and non-POSIX would be interesting.

If there are additional RE examples that you would like added to the FAQ, just post them to the forum.

Thanks!

Jeff,

Jeffrey Friedl, author of the wonderful book, Mastering Regular Expressions (O'Reilly, 1997) maintains a page of useful links:

http://public.yahoo.com/~jfriedl/regex/links.html

The TextPad 3.x help file had a url I'd used to learn regex. I do not have that help file any more, but the url may have been one of these:

Tutorials
http://www.netcat.co.uk/rob/perl/win32p ... xpressions
http://www.english.uga.edu/humcomp/perl/regex2a.html
http://www.rutgers.edu/~sgro/perltutor/regexp.html
http://www.english.uga.edu/humcomp/perl/regexps.html

Reference
http://sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov/info/regex/Top.html
http://www.english.uga.edu/humcomp/perl ... sions.HTML

Feel free to post them on your page.

Warm regards,

Roy Beatty
rrbeatty@hotmail.com

Roy,

Thanks so much for the links. I've actually added your letter, verbatim, to the FAQ. The links are clickable.

http://www.jeffyjeffy.com/textpad/docum ... n_faq.html