Add support for Perl5/JavaScript regular expressions

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Add support for Perl5/JavaScript regular expressions

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csalsa
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Add support for Perl5/JavaScript regular expressions

Post by csalsa »

I am a regular user of regular expressions :D

I would support added for support for Perl5/JavaScript regular expressions. Thus I can use regular expressions as they are given from books and web sites such as Regular Expression Library

For example, Perl5/JavaScript uses character classes:
  • \w Matches on any word character
  • \W Matches on any non-word character
  • \s Matches on any white-space character
  • \d Matches on any digit character
  • \D Matches on any non-digit character
paul-white

Post by paul-white »

The lack of proper regular expression support is the main reason I have looked at other editors. Hopefully this will be addressed in the version 5.
ben_josephs
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Post by ben_josephs »

You might be interested in glancing at WildEdit (http://www.textpad.com/products/wildedit/), which uses the powerful Boost regular expression recogniser.
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